From the responsorial psalm: “Sing to the LORD a new song, for he has done wondrous deeds; His right hand has won victory for him, his holy arm. The Lord has made known his salvation.”
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke (Lk 11:47-54)
“Woe to you, scholars of the law! You have taken away the key of knowledge. You yourselves did not enter and you stopped those trying to enter.” When Jesus left, the scribes and Pharisees began to act with hostility toward him and to interrogate him about many things, for they were plotting to catch him at something he might say.
Even as the Pharisees try to trip up Jesus, he calls them to see and respond to the truth, to the key of knowledge he himself is as the Son of God. As they try to “catch him at something he might say,” they become frustrated toward him and hostile because of their inability to see any wrong Jesus has done. The knowledge of God, revealed throughout the ages and finally through his Son Jesus Christ, is a gift given out of love for us. How will I receive it today?
God, help me see the times I have been complicit in preventing the truth of the Gospel from being heard or entered into. I don’t need to look deeply, too far beyond the capacities you have given me, to know the truth of faith that you are a loving Father and to share the goodness of that with others. Give me the grace to have childlike faith and trust in you, Lord; open my hear to hear and respond to you. Saint Ignatius of Antioch, pray for us!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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