Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time • Year C
The proud pay no attention to the warnings of friends because they don’t think friends have any worthwhile knowledge to communicate. They pay no attention to divine threats because they are firmly convinced that they are the only divinity of any importance. They become trapped in their self-created heaven. Jesus made it plain that God will have no sympathy for such bloated spirits. He said to the listening crowds words like these: When the proud come to the gate of heaven so ‘filled with themselves,’ God will simply say, ‘Go away! I do not know you!’