The Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time [A]
I Kgs 3:5,7-12 + Rom 8:28-30 + Mt 13:44-52
July 30, 2017
“…all things work for good for those who love God, who are called according to His purpose.”
Ten centuries before Christ, the son of David became the King of Israel. Solomon was a young man. He realized his lack of experience and his lack of ability to govern Israel. The Lord told him to ask for any gift, and it would be granted.
Solomon could have asked for wealth, since with immense wealth he could buy off any kingdom that got in his way. Or he could have asked for absolute power, since he could then destroy any kingdom that got in his way. He could have asked for any number of things. But he asked for wisdom.
Wisdom is insight into the meaning of things. Such meaning manifests itself chiefly when Wisdom shows how everything fits together: how everything has its place. This wisdom is a gift of the Holy Spirit. It is through the providential power of the Holy Spirit that St. Paul’s words in today’s Second Reading are true: “all things work for good for those who love God, who are called according to His purpose.” This purpose we can consider as God’s providential will, which converges in Christ. St. Paul explains this as he continues: “those He foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He might be the firstborn”. Continue reading →
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