Mt 7,21-29 – Thursday of the XII Week of Ordinary Time
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the Kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.” The words of Jesus in today’s Gospel are as simple as they are decisive. They remind us that authentic faith is not measured by the words we speak, but from the life we lead.
You can talk a lot about God without really letting yourself be changed by Him. You can even know the Gospel without allowing the Gospel to become flesh in your existence. Jesus does not devalue words. Prayer, preaching and profession of faith also have their importance. But it warns us against a religiosity that stops at declarations and never arrives at concrete choices. The Christian faith is not an idea to be shared, but a life to be lived. For this reason the decisive criterion is the will of the Father.
Not unattainable perfection, not spiritual success, but the sincere desire to translate the Gospel into concrete gestures. The Lord does not ask us to always succeed, but to never stop trying. What matters is not the absence of fragility, but the faithfulness in starting over every time. The stability of Christian life is therefore not born from an extraordinary strength, but from the daily attempt to put into practice what we believe to be true. It is in the faithfulness of small choices, much more than in great speeches, that the reality of our faith is manifested. So come on! Let’s try it today too.
Thursday 25 June 2026 – (Thursday of the XII Week of Ordinary Time – Even Year)
