Wednesday, July 16, 2003
15th Week in Ordinary Time

1st Reading: Ex 3:1-6, 9-12
Gospel: Mt 11:25-27

On one occasion Jesus said, "Father, Lord of heaven and earth, I praise you, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned and revealed them to simple people. Yes, Father, this is what pleased you.

"Everything has been entrusted to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him."

Commentary

Is learning opposed to faith? The heavenly Father delighted in creating humans in his likeness, setting them over all creation, with their gifts of reason and freewill. Part of those gifts is to understand the nature of the universe and the laws that govern the relationship of its myriad components.The discovery of the laws of nature reveals order in the visible world that not only accounts for its beauty but also calls for an "orderer", a Creator. Sometimes the human mind refuses to open itself to that truth. It refuses to make the reasonable act of faith in the Creator. Then it fails to recognize his loving plan. And so we all become accidents, instead of beings made out of love, sons and daughters of a loving Father.

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