In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen The readings this week bring us to reflect upon the beauty of God's creation and God's divine plan for us to share in His divine life. And we see this so beautifully from the beginning in the creation of Adam and Eve, as we heard in the first reading. God's institution of the family, and that the family being a foundation of society. And this carries over into the Gospel in which our Lord once again testifies to the sanctity of marriage, the sanctity of marriage. And of course, we know that our Lord elevated marriage to a sacrament. All this is once again directing our thoughts of God calling us to share in His divine life, and that God gives us His commandments, His laws, His teachings, not to make life difficult for us, but to free us so that we may more fully enter into and share His life. That we may more fully enter into that call to share in His holiness, and to be freed from the shackles of sin. And so our Lord is reminding us today that above all, our spiritual life is to direct us to be like children. And of course, we just celebrated last week, St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus, whose "little way," of course, is a reminder for all of us that we are all God's children. And that our Lord is saying, unless you accept the Kingdom of God like a child, you will not enter it. Our Lord is reminding us of the faith, the trust, the confidence we are to have as His children. Children trust, they have confidence, they follow that path that they are led upon. And so we are to be like God's children. We are God's children, and as His children, we must walk with that trust, that loving trust, faith, and confidence in God's help—God's help in all our needs and in all things. Yesterday, we didn't celebrate it in the liturgy, but yesterday was the feast day of St. Faustina. And one of the things that Jesus told St. Faustina, that she records in her diary, is one of the things that causes Him sadness in us is that we do not trust Him. And that's, of course, one of the big things of Divine Mercy: trust. Jesus, I trust in You. And so our Lord is trying to tell us as children we are to trust Him, to have confidence in Him. And whatever our vocation is—if we're married, if we're widowed, if we're single, if we are priests or religious—we are to trust Him as children, to have confidence in His divine help and His assistance, that above all, this pilgrimage we're on is to lead us to our true home, our eternal home in Heaven, and that we must walk daily as children. And, of course, I think that our Lord is also so beautifully reminding us as children, children have a father, they have a mother. God is our Father, and Mary is our Mother. And in this, our Lord is reminding us that we must cling to our Mother to help us on that path of following Him and loving Him, that we may safely arrive at our true home in Heaven. May Mary, our Mother, help us to truly be faithful, trusting children, and that we may be led by her safely to our true home in Heaven. In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen