In today's gospel is resolved what is often a criticism of our Lord that he deliberately
withheld the truth from souls but our Lord in explaining why he spoke in parables points out
it wasn't that he deliberately withheld it for indeed he wished all to come to salvation but
it was because the hardness of their hearts that they did not understand and so he spoke to them
in parables because in the case especially of the leaders of the people the Pharisees and the
scribes envy and lust had blinded them to any hope of gaining an understanding of what Christ
came to taught and so in speaking to the people in parables he is trying to give them something
to ponder over something to look into so that they may try to understand it and even in there
he is giving them an opportunity to come to repentance because he knows out of their envy
and their lust they have been blinded and no understanding
can end their life.
And so he speaks to them in parables in order that he may remove the blindness from their eyes
but we see very clearly that when these two voices are deeply rooted in the human soul
they are very hard to root out.
Indeed our Lord when he would begin his passion in earnest would tell many of them that indeed
they would die.
In their sins because they could not even accept the simple innocent witness of children as to who
the Savior was and so we have much to be rejoicing in much to be blessed in for we declare those
truths that the Pharisees and scribes that is the leaders of the chosen people did not believe
and did not hold in their hearts but most especially our Lord wishes in explaining to us
the nature of parables.
He wishes to let all souls come to them.
He will be the first to receive a gift of the Lord Jesus Christ through the knowledge that it is
not through our own gifts not through our own intellect that we understand the mysteries of faith
but that is a pure gratuitous gift of almighty God who has given that gift to those who have faults
and failings as the early disciples the apostles and those disciples that followed the Lord
certainly were afflicted with many faults and failings and we see in the case of the greatest of them
and they were contrite.
They knew they fell because of their own weakness.
They knew they fell because they tried to work out their salvation on their own terms.
And so they would constantly return to the Lord, asking him for his help,
listening to him so that they would come to a better understanding.
And so we have much to rejoice, but let us always remember that in order to preserve that faith,
we must constantly beseech the Lord and his most holy mother through prayer
in order that we may remain humble, that we remain afflicted by our faults and failings,
but when we find ourselves falling, we pick ourselves up again and return to him from whom all good things come.
And so it is not under our own strength that we understand the mysteries and the parables of the Lord,
but it is by his gift.
And so let us strive to preserve that gift in ourselves by doing all that we can,
knowing that it is the Lord's work by which we are primarily saved.
And so we have much to rejoice, and let us rejoice,
and let us also pray and offer to the Lord those souls, especially in our day and age,
who seem to have no love for Christ, no desire to come to know them.
Let us, as it were, by allowing them to see in some way the love of Christ in us,
let us give them something to ponder so that as our Lord tries to do this day
to break the hardness of the hearts of the Pharisees and the scribes,
and those people who chose to follow them,
that in seeing Christ in us, also today's leaders and those who seem to have nothing to do with Christ
may have something to ponder and somehow begin to desire,
even in the smallest way, to desire union with Christ.
For once we begin to desire union with Christ,
if we maintain that disposition, that desire increases
so that eventually we may acquire that grace by which Christ truly is,
our all, and truly is our desire.
And so we see and approach everything in that light.
Will this help me remain in union with Christ, or will this distance me from him?
And so we would be willing to give up even the simplest things
if we saw that it would keep us from the one who is the love of our hearts.
And so let us truly rejoice this day that in speaking to the parables,
the Lord was not seeking to condemn the Pharisees and the scribes,
but was simply trying to give us the love of Christ.
He was trying to reach them in a different way in which he could reach the apostles
and the early disciples who did accept Jesus Christ for who he was,
knowing that he was the truth.
And so the Lord tries everything in the age of mercy
in order to get through to the hearts of those who have become hardened to the truth
and have desired to seek their happiness in this life,
not knowing often in many cases that there is a much greater happiness.
And indeed,
it is the only happiness that the human heart can truly be satisfied with,
that is, the happiness of being united to God for all eternity in heaven.
And I beg you so very pleasantly,
that all of us of this world have one again more purpose with in this life than we would just be
actually to
have our happy thousands tonight.
So thank you Lord
I'll let you go works.
If you would please leave our meetings or flower orchards,
we will live there forever and never again.
Thank you Lord.
All right,
having said that all things are good and always are good.
Thank you Lord.