Monday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time/ July 27, 2020

Gospel: Matthew 13:31-35

Friends in today’s Gospel Jesus spoke parables to the crowds ‘to fulfill what had been said through the prophet: “I will open my mouth in parables, I will announce what has lain hidden from the foundation of the world.”

What was that, which has been lain hidden from the foundation of the world? That was the so-called “Secrets of the Kingdom of Heaven.” The secrets which has been announced to the childlike and hidden from the wise and the learned. The secrets which has been bestowing on us from the beginning of the world. The secrets which has been offered to us in and through the cross. The secrets which is already within us, and within our reach; the Love, Kindness, Mercy, Generosity, and Peace of God. “For God so loved…