Luke 10,21-24 – Saturday of the XXXIV Week of Ordinary Time – Odd Year
“I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth.” It is beautiful to think that God rejoices, and that our faith can be a reason for rejoicing in the heart of Christ. His joy comes from the fact that the Father he reveals the truest things not to the wise, but to the little ones.
It is not a praise of ignorance, but a warning: when our heart is swollen with pride and arrogance, there is no room for grace. Jesus rejoices because the Kingdom comes through simplicity. The little ones are the ones who don’t hold back, who don’t want to control everything, who don’t rely on their own competence, who don’t always need to prove something. They are the ones who trust. And God lets himself be reached by those with a humble heart, not by those with a perfect spiritual curriculum. “Blessed are the eyes that see what you see.”
There are people who seek God and do not find him, others who encounter him and do not recognize him. The bliss of the disciples is being able to see God in the everyday life of a human face. Our bliss today is recognize Christ in the discrete signs of the present: in a good word, in a thirst for truth, in a true and healing friendship, in a small thing that happened to us.
You have to become small to see better and not to be imprisoned by the idea of already knowing everything, but to be amazed like children who trust. Because God’s truth passes where there is space, and the humble heart is always large enough to welcome it.
