Friends,
in today’s
Gospel we see Jesus praying to his Father. We are being given a share in
the inner life of God, the conversation between the first two
Trinitarian persons.
And
what are the "things" that have been concealed from the learned and
revealed to the little ones? Nothing other than the mystery of the inner
life of God.
Now
why, precisely, is this knowledge concealed from the learned and
disclosed to children? The clue is in
the next statement: "All things have been handed over to me by my
Father." What is the essence of the divine life? It is a play of giving
and receiving.
The
Father, forgetting himself, gives rise to the Son, and the Son,
refusing to cling to himself, receives from the Father. The Holy Spirit is this mutual sharing of the Father and the Son. God’s own inner life is a looking toward the other in love.
From
Adam and Eve to today the fundamental human problem is that we seek
something other than God. We seek to fill up the ego with stuff, such as
sex, pleasure, power, honor. But this will never work, because we’ve
been wired for God, and God is love.
Wednesday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time
Lectionary: 391
Thus says the LORD:
Woe to Assyria! My rod in anger,
my staff in wrath.
Against an impious nation I send him,
and against a people under my wrath I order him
To seize plunder, carry off loot,
and tread them down like the mud of the streets.
But this is not what he intends,
nor does he have this in mind;
Rather, it is in his heart to destroy,
to make an end of nations not a few.
For he says:
“By my own power I have done it,
and by my wisdom, for I am shrewd.
I have moved the boundaries of peoples,
their treasures I have pillaged,
and, like a giant, I have put down the enthroned.
My hand has seized like a nest
the riches of nations;
As one takes eggs left alone,
so I took in all the earth;
No one fluttered a wing,
or opened a mouth, or chirped!”
Will the axe boast against him who hews with it?
Will the saw exalt itself above him who wields it?
As if a rod could sway him who lifts it,
or a staff him who is not wood!
Therefore the Lord, the LORD of hosts,
will send among his fat ones leanness,
And instead of his glory there will be kindling
like the kindling of fire.
At that time Jesus exclaimed:
“I give praise to you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth,
for although you have hidden these things
from the wise and the learned
you have revealed them to the childlike.
Yes, Father, such has been your gracious will.
All things have been handed over to me by my Father.
No one knows the Son except the Father,
and no one knows the Father except the Son
and anyone to whom the Son wishes to reveal him.”
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