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Readings
1 Kings 3:5,7-12
Psalm 119:57,72,76-77,127-130
Romans 8:28-30
Matthew 13:44-52
What is your new life in Christ worth to you?
Do you love His words more than gold and silver, as we sing in today’s Psalm? Would you, like the characters in the Gospel today, sell all that you have in order to possess the kingdom He promises to us? If God were to grant any wish, would you follow Solomon’s example in today’s First Reading—asking not for a long life or riches, but for wisdom to know God’s ways and to desire His will?
The background for today’s Gospel, as it has been for the past several weeks, is the rejection of Jesus’ preaching by Israel. The kingdom of heaven has come into their midst, yet many cannot see that Jesus is the fulfillment of God’s promises, a gift of divine compassion given that they—and we, too—might live.
We too must ever discover the kingdom anew, to find it as a treasure - a pearl of great price. By comparison with the kingdom, we must count all else as rubbish (see Philippians 3:8). And we must be willing to give up all that we have—all our priorities and plans—in order to gain it.
Jesus’ Gospel discloses what Paul, in today’s Epistle, calls the purpose of God’s plan (see Ephesians 1:4). That purpose is that Jesus be the firstborn of many brothers.
His words give understanding to the simple, the childlike. As Solomon does today, we must humble ourselves before God, giving ourselves to His service. Let our prayer be for an understanding heart, one that desires only to do His will.
We are called to love God, to delight in His law, and to forsake every false way. And we are to conform ourselves daily ever more closely to the image of His Son.
If we do this, we can approach His altar as a pleasing sacrifice, confident that all things work for the good—that we whom He has justified, will also one day be glorified.
Lecturas:
1 Reyes 3,5. 7-12
Salmo 119,57.72.76-77.127-130
Romanos 8,28-30
Mateo 13, 44-52
¿Cuánto vale para ti tu nueva vida en Cristo?
¿Amas sus palabras más que el oro y la plata, como cantamos en el salmo de esta semana? ¿Venderías todo lo que tienes para poseer el reino que Él promete, como los personajes del Evangelio de este domingo?
¿Si Dios te concediera cualquier deseo, seguirías el ejemplo de Salomón en la primera lectura, quien no pidió una larga vida o riquezas, sino sabiduría para conocer los caminos de Dios y desear su voluntad?
El trasfondo del Evangelio de este domingo, como lo ha sido las semanas anteriores, es el rechazo de Israel a la predicación de Jesús. El reino del cielo ha llegado en medio de ellos. Sin embargo, muchos no pueden ver que Jesús es el cumplimiento de la promesa de Dios; que es un regalo de la compasión divina, dado para que ellos – y nosotros también- puedan vivir.
También nosotros debemos descubrir el reino nuevamente, para encontrarlo como un tesoro, como perla de gran valor. En comparación con el reino, necesitamos considerar basura todo lo demás (cf. Flp 3,8).
Y debemos estar dispuestos a dejar todo lo que tenemos – todas nuestras prioridades y planes- a fin de ganarlo.El Evangelio de Jesús revela lo que San Pablo, en la epístola de esta semana, llama el designio de Dios (cf. Ef 1,4) . Ese designio es que Jesús sea el primogénito de muchos hermanos.
Sus palabras dan entendimiento a los sencillos, a los que son como niños. Como Salomón en la lectura de esta semana, debemos humillarnos ante Dios, entregándonos a su servicio. Pidamos en nuestra oración un corazón sabio, que desee solamente hacer su voluntad.
Estamos llamados a amar a Dios, a deleitarnos en su Ley y a abandonar todo camino falso. Y debemos conformarnos cada vez más a la imagen de Su Hijo.
Si hacemos esto, podemos acercarnos a Su altar como sacrificio agradable, confiados en que todo contribuye para bien; seguros de que los que hemos sido justificados por Él, seremos también glorificados un día.
Lecturas:
Sabiduría 12,13.16-19
Salmo 86,5-6.9-10.15-16
Romanos 8, 26-27
Mateo 13, 24-43
Dios está siempre instruyendo a su pueblo, escuchamos en la primera lectura de esta semana.
¿Y qué quiere hacernos saber? Que se preocupa por todos nosotros; que aunque es un Dios de justicia, aún los que lo desafían y dudan de Él, pueden esperar en su misericordia si regresan a Él arrepentidos.
Esta enseñanza divina continúa en las tres parábolas que Jesús cuenta en el Evangelio de hoy. Cada una describe el surgimiento del reino de Dios de semillas sembradas por su trabajo y predicación. El reino crece de manera oculta- como la acción de la levadura en el pan, que es improbable, inesperada. De igual manera sucede con el gran árbol de mostaza, que crece de la más pequeña de las semillas.
Una vez más, las lecturas de esta semana cuestionan: ¿Porqué Dios permite al mal crecer al lado del bien? ¿Porqué permite que algunos rechacen la Palabra de su reino? Porque, como cantamos en el salmo dominical, Dios es lento a la cólera y rico en bondad.
Jesús nos asegura que es justo: Los malvados y los que inducen a otros al pecado, serán arrojados en el horno encendido al final de los tiempos. Pero por su paciencia Dios nos enseña que, sobre todo, desea arrepentimiento; y quiere reunir a todas las naciones para que lo adoren y glorifiquen su Nombre.
Aunque no sabemos orar como deberíamos, el Espíritu intercede por nosotros, nos promete San Pablo en la epístola dominical. Pero primero hemos de volver a Él y llamarlo; debemos comprometernos a dejar que la buena semilla de su Palabra dé frutos en nuestras vidas.
Por tanto, no debemos engañarnos ni descorazonarnos cuando vemos cizaña entre el trigo, verdad y santidad mezclada con error, injusticia y pecado.
Por ahora, Él hace salir su sol sobre buenos y malos (cf. Mt 5,45). Pero la cosecha se acerca. Trabajemos para que seamos contados entre los hijos justos, que brillarán como el sol en el reino del Padre.
Readings:
Wisdom 12:13,16-19
Psalm 86:5-6, 9-10, 15-16
Romans 8:26-27
Matthew 13:24-43
God is always teaching His people, we hear in today’s First Reading.
And what does He want us to know? That He has care for all of us, that though He is a God of justice, even those who defy and disbelieve Him may hope for His mercy if they turn to Him in repentance.
This divine teaching continues in the three parables that Jesus tells in the Gospel today. Each describes the emergence of the kingdom of God from the seeds sown by His works and preaching. The kingdom’s growth is hidden - like the working of yeast in bread; it’s improbable, unexpected—as in the way the tall mustard tree grows from the smallest of seeds.
Again this week’s readings sound a note of questioning: Why does God permit the evil to grow alongside the good? Why does He permit some to reject the Word of His kingdom?
Because, as we sing in today’s Psalm, God is slow to anger and abounding in kindness. He is just, Jesus assures us - evildoers and those who cause others to sin will be thrown into the fiery furnace at the end of the age. But by His patience, God is teaching us—that above all He desires repentance, and the gathering of all nations to worship Him and to glorify His name.
Even though we don’t know how to pray as we ought, the Spirit will intercede for us, Paul promises in today’s Epistle. But first we must turn and call upon Him, we must commit ourselves to letting the good seed of His Word bear fruit in our lives.
So we should not be deceived or lose heart when we see weeds among the wheat, truth and holiness mixed with error, injustice and sin.
For now, He makes His sun rise on the good and the bad (see Matthew 5:45). But the harvest draws near. Let’s work that we might be numbered among the righteous children—who will shine like the sun in the kingdom of the Father.
Readings:
Isaiah 55:10-11
Psalm 65:10-14
Romans 8:18-23
Matthew 13:1-23
Today’s readings, like last week’s, ask us to meditate on Israel’s response to God’s Word—and our own. Why do some hear the word of the kingdom, yet fail to accept it as a call to conversion and faith in Jesus? That question underlies today’s Gospel, especially.
Again we see, as we did last week, that the kingdom’s mysteries are unfolded to those who open their hearts, making of them a rich soil in the which the Word can grow and bear fruit.
As we sing in today’s Psalm, in Jesus, God’s Word has visited our land, to water the stony earth of our hearts with the living waters of the Spirit (see John 7:38; Revelation 22:1).
The firstfruit of the Word is the Spirit of love and adoption poured into our hearts in baptism, making us children of God, as Paul reminds us in today’s Epistle (see Romans 5:5; 8:15-16). In this, we are made a “new creation” (see 2 Corinthians 5:17), the firstfruits of a new heaven and a new earth (see 2 Peter 3:13).
Since the first humans rejected God’s Word, creation has been enslaved to futility (see Genesis 3:17-19; 5:29). But God’s Word does not go forth only to return to Him void, as we hear in today’s First Reading.
His Word awaits our response. We must show ourselves to be children of that Word. We must allow that Word to accomplish God’s will in our lives. As Jesus warns today, we must take care lest the devil steal it away or lest it be choked by worldly concerns.
In the Eucharist, the Word gives himself to us as bread to eat. He does so that we might be made fertile, yielding fruits of holiness.
And we await the crowning of the year, the great harvest of the Lord’s Day (see Mark 4:29; 2 Peter 3:10; Revelation 1:10)—when His Word will have achieved the end for which it was sent.
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