In our daily life we face many broken relationships, regrets, misunderstanding and so on. A careful analysis would reveal the underlying reason - anger or rage. Anger may drive a person to forget all giftedness, graces and even one's humaneness.

In the Gospel Jesus says that anyone who is angry with a brother or sister is liable to judgment. He is almost equating anger with murder. This raises a natural question in us whether it is unnatural for human persons to get angry. Definitely we all have the feeling of anger implanted in us. But we need to know the right reason to express it. The Gospel narratives tell us that Jesus, too, got angry on two occasions - in the temple at the people who were selling things (Mt 21:12-13) and in the synagogue while curing the man with a withered hand (Mk 3:5). His anger was against injustice, corruption and hypocrisy. Our anger should be divinely spurred to protect the dignity of people as children of God against starvation, exploitation of the helpless and abuse of children or else our suppressed and unjustified anger would lead to violence against oneself and others. Today we are called to build relationships and bring reconciliation with one another.