1st Reading: Mi 2:1-5
Responsorial Psalm: Ps 10:1-4,7-8,14
Gospel: Mt 12:14-21
Jesus finds Himself surrounded by two different groups of people. On one hand we have the Pharisees who lacked faith in Christ and His acts and only wanted to point out the shortcomings of other people. On the other hand you have people who are willing to invite Jesus into their lives and allow Him to work on their behalf with great faith. We must ask ourselves which group that we want to find ourselves among. Nobody here can answer this question for us because we must give this answer ourselves. In evaluating this for ourselves we can decide if we want to be with the group who used pride against Christ or allowed humility to work in their relationship with Christ.
If we have come here today only to be seen we are doing ourselves a great injustice. Instead we should come here to open ourselves up to the will of God and to allow Him to work within our lives. Today at this Mass we will receive the great gift of Christ present in His Body and Blood who wishes to come here and dwell with us. We must receive this gift and thus allow our hearts and souls to become one with God the Father. We cannot allow ourselves to stand back like the Pharisees and criticize everything to make ourselves look good. We should instead allow ourselves to walk humbly with the Lord.
The Pharisees came at Christ with pride while this people of great faith acted through humility. Humility must be the tool that we use to allow Christ to work within our lives. May we open up our hearts and souls today to this great gift so that we may begin to counteract the pride that exists inside of our lives. Through the use of humility we will draw closer to Christ as the group did in today's Gospel instead of keeping ourselves separated from Him through our impulse of pride.
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