Among the pernicious disease that threatens both our society and our church, there is jealousy and lust for power, the will to power in all its forms. When in a position of responsibility, it is considered irreplaceable! But when it is not we who have been chosen to lead an instance, an association, we draw acrimony and strive to put spanner in the works of people who seem to have usurped a responsibility that we should be awarded.
is almost everyday that I am the witness of these power struggles croquignolesque, that should be ashamed, if not to humanity or to the people of God, at least, people who volunteer. I always want then return them to the words of wisdom that opens the biblical book of Ecclesiastes: "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity!" (Ecclesiastes 1 / 2) But experience shows me that so few willing to call into question the assumption that it is always the other who is at fault and must be rejected.
Such attitude is for me an absolute childishness! These are people who are not yet out of adolescence, if not the child! And yet, many children and teenagers have moved beyond such a stage, and without this ridiculous self-indulgence with altruism and brotherhood.
So where is the problem? Let us be clear, in light of the most basic human wisdom, and finally learn to rejoice in the success of others, even if it makes us a little shade at times.
I like to quote this wonderful passage from the Letter to the Philippians (2/1-11) which I convey to you just a brief excerpt "Fulfill my joy by living in full agreement. Have the same love, one heart, looking for unity, do nothing out of rivalry, not by vanity, but in humility regard others as better than yourselves. Behave you and you as is done in Jesus Christ. "
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