5 July 2020. 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time Mt 11, 25-30
What a beautiful prayer Jesus offers today, and how full of hope! “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and learned and revealed them to simple people.
Neither to the wise, nor to the learned, nor to complicated theologians, in short, to those who “believe in themselves”, the “learned”, the “self-possessed”, and who need no one. God manifests himself only to those who approach him with a simple and humble heart. The one who knows he needs God, even if he is an intellectual but not a wise man, is the one who comes to discover “these things”, because he is in tune with Jesus, who has a humble, simple, understanding, welcoming, tolerant heart, close to the one who suffers whatever wrong…
And, besides announcing forgiveness and salvation, he becomes indignant and denounces injustices and everything that goes against the good, even to the point of taking up the whip to drive the sellers out of the Temple. He is humble and simple, but the path he teaches us is hard and complicated, and requires tiring efforts. Then he tells us: “Come to me, and I will give you rest”.
Humility and simplicity require prayer, contact with Jesus, to be able to continue on his path. If we pretend to do it alone, it is because we start to consider ourselves self-sufficient, we become “wise and understanding”. Then God is hidden from us.
Juan Ramon Gomez Pascual, cmf
