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“Question: When is a person sure of having arrived at purity? Answer: When s/he considers all human beings are good, and no created thing appears impure or defiled. Then s/he is truly pure in heart.”
- Isaac of Nineveh [7th C], Ascetic
Treatises, 85
(Don’t know about you, but I’ve a ways to go. For the grace to press onward . . . )
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Nm 24:2-7, 15-17a; Ps 25:4-5ab, 6 and 7bc, 8-9
Mt 21:23-27
23 And when he entered the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came up to him as he was teaching, and said, "By what authority are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority?"
24 Jesus answered them, "I also will ask you a question; and if you tell me the answer, then I also will tell you by
what authority I do these things.
25 The baptism of John, whence was it? From heaven or from men?" And they argued with one another, "If we say, `From heaven,' he will say to us, `Why then did you not believe him?'
26 But if we say, `From men,' we are afraid of the multitude; for all hold that John was a prophet."
27 So they answered Jesus, "We do not know." And he said to them, "Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.
USCCB lectionary
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Reflection on the Scripture |
“Show
us, Lord, your love, and grant us your salvation.”
The Gospel Acclamation verse for today indicates the ideal attitude of the good disciple or student. I’ve found that there are three kinds of students: the Challenger, whose goal is to win the argument; the Questioner, whose goal is knowledge; and the Seeker, whose goal is wisdom. These correspond to the stages
of life — adolescence, the middle years and older age. The Pharisees were not looking for wisdom or even answers. They were trying to trap Jesus, to win. Notice how deftly Jesus avoids the trap.
“Lord Jesus, make us seekers after you and fill our hearts with your wisdom so that we may be like your holy mother — Christ-bearers to this needy
world.”
- from preacherexchange.com
mycatholic.com
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Theological Gems from Emile Merch's Theology of the Mystical Body - selected by Jim and Tyra Arraj
Book III: Christ
Chapter 13: Revelation and the Trinity
381.
Revelation burst forth at the moment the sacred humanity began to exist, and flows on without pause from the deep source where it is ever beginning to be -- that is, to be the humanity of the Word
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