Gospel: Matthew 11:25-30
At that time, Jesus exclaimed, “I bless you, Father, Lord of heaven and of earth, for hiding these things from the learned and the clever and revealing them to mere children. Yes, Father, for that is what it pleased you to do. Everything has been entrusted to me by the Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father, just as no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him. Come to me, all you who labour and are overburdened and I will give you rest. Shoulder my yoke and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. Yes, my yoke is easy and my burden light.”
Homily
The Gospel readings for the Mass of this weekend remind us of a very important principle of the Christian life. We come to know God, how God acts, and who God is through the brothers and sisters who surround us. Our manner of acting and our manner of being is therefore extremely important because we have the responsibility of making God known.
I remember many years ago a married man saying to me, “When I think of the love of my wife, Icome to realize just how much God loves me.” It is in our experience of human love that we come to understand the love of God. It is in that light that we understand the words of the Gospel given to us for our meditation; “Everything has been entrusted to me by the Father.”
To be entrusted with everything by one’s father speaks of the profound trust of one’s father in you. A trust which comes because the father has seen and experienced that one acts with responsibility, and that one really acts as the father himself would act. This comes from really knowing the father and striving to imitate him. Jesus knew his Father, and acted as the Father would have wanted him to act. Jesus in his actions revealed his Father to the world.
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We thank God for these examples who help us to experience, each in his or her own way, a different facet of God.
The Gospel always calls us however to reflection and to action. The question for each one of us is this; Do I reveal by my actions and by my way of being some quality of God so that those who surround me, spouse, children, relatives, workers come to experience and to know a little more about God in their lives? This may seem a tall order but the Gospel gives us the key to its accomplishment.
“Shoulder my yoke and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. Yes, my yoke is easy and my burden light.
When two oxen pull a cart, the work is easier than when one ox does it alone. Jesus assures us that with him, with his presence in our lives, we can accomplish much. The key to revealing the Father is the presence of the Son with us. That was the experience of all the saints, it can be our experience also. As we live each day may our actions provide for others a glimpse of who God really is. When that happens we become other Christs in the world and God’s love is more experienced and better understood.
Prayer
Knowing You is knowing the Father. Today however we do not see you physically before us. We, unworthy though we are, are called to take you place as other Christs. Give us the grace to be merciful and loving so that all who interact with us may come to know you as the loving and merciful God that you are. We ask this through the intercession of Mary our mother and Jesus your Son. Amen
