Daily Mass Gospel Reflection- Concealed and Revealed

Word on Fire Ministry ^ | 07.13.22 | Bishop Robert Barron

[MurphsLaw]

Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time

Matthew 11:25–27

Friends, in today’s Gospel, we see Jesus praying to his Father.
We are being given a share in the inner life of God,
the conversation between the first two Trinitarian persons.

And what are the “things” that have been concealed from the learned and revealed to the little ones?
Nothing other than the mystery of the inner life of God.

Now why, precisely, is this knowledge concealed from the learned
and disclosed to children?
The clue is in the next statement:What is the essence of the divine life?
It is a play of giving and receiving.

The Father, forgetting himself, gives rise to the Son,
and the Son, refusing to cling to himself,
receives from the Father.
The Holy Spirit is this mutual sharing of the Father and the Son.
God’s own inner life is a looking toward the other in love.

From Adam and Eve to today,
the fundamental human problem is that we seek something other than God.
We seek to fill up the ego with stuff, such as sex, pleasure, power, honor.
But this will never work, because we’ve been wired for God,
and God is love.

[MurphsLaw]

+++At that time Jesus exclaimed:
“I give praise to you, Father, Lord
of heaven and earth,
for although you have hidden these things
from the wise and the learned
you have revealed them to the childlike.
Yes, Father, such has been your
gracious will.
All things have been handed over to
me by my Father.
No one knows the Son except the Father,
and no one knows the Father except the Son
and anyone to whom the Son wishes to reveal him.”+++

[fidelis]

The New Catholic Bible has this comment:

Matthew 11:25: The self-revelation of Jesus reached one of its high points in this moving prayer. It enables us to enter into the most hidden core of his life, into his innermost experiences. Between him and the Father there is an exchange of life, a profound and unique bond, a mutual commitment of their entire being—in short, an inexpressibly mysterious oneness. In the Bible, all this is summed up in the verb “know.” This is why Jesus alone can reveal to other human beings who the Father is for them.

[MurphsLaw]

Nice tag line !