Br. Ed Van Merrienboer, OP

In today's reading, Jesus tells his detractors that they will be condemned because they have closed their minds to a greater truth about God that he was teaching. Are we open to learning something new about God, or might Jesus level the same charge at us?

In the Letter to the Hebrews we read that the word of God is able to discern all things. This election season, let us use it as our standard rather than some political ideology or social theory.

In Luke's version of the Beatitudes, we learn that God loves those who are materially poor, and Jesus challenges us to do something to help them here and now and to live with integrity.

When the Christian community began cheating one another and fighting among themselves, Paul called them to remember that they left that quarrelsome life behind when they became justified in the name of Jesus.

God invites us to join in the work of salvation by offering us wisdom and grace in the Eucharist, but we have to choose to partake of these gifts if we want to be coworkers in creating the Kingdom,

Jesus said to let the little children come to him, because the kingdom of heaven belongs so such as them. Children can have a very profound and simple trust in God that can be our guide when we feel our faith flagging.