HOMILY FOR WEDNESDAY {17/07/2024}, 15TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME B
[ISAI 10:5-7.13-16; MATT 11:25-27]
Jesus knew that ordinary people with large, sensitive hearts, rather than proud intellectuals like the Scribes and the Pharisees, were able to accept the “Good News” he preached. Such people would inherit Heaven rather than the “learned” and the “wise” who prided themselves on their intellectual achievements. Hence, in the first part of today’s Gospel Jesus prays loudly, joyfully thanking God his Father and praising Him for revealing Himself to the simple-hearted, thus condemning intellectual pride. A person who is full of self-centeredness fails to perceive supernatural things as real.
“No one really knows the Father except the Son, and him to whom the Son wishes to reveal Him” (Mt 11:27).The claim that Jesus alone can reveal God to men forms the center of the Christian Faith. John records Jesus’ claim in different words which He spoke at the Last Supper: “He who has seen me has seen the Father” (Jn 14:9). What Jesus says is this: “If you want to see what God is like, if you want to see the mind of God, the heart of God, the nature of God, if you want to see God’s whole attitude to men–look at Me!”
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, we need to learn how to know and love God better by studying Jesus’ revelation about God his Father. We do this by daily reading the Holy Bible, especially the Gospels, by meditating on the passages read and by applying them to our lives. The more we study the Bible, the more we learn about the Triune God, and especially about Jesus our Savior. This knowledge will help us to love Jesus more, experience his presence in our daily lives, see his face in everyone around us, and surrender our lives to Jesus by rendering humble service to everyone around us
PAX VOBIS
Catholic Diocese of Ilorin, Kwara State,
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