July 15
Our Lady of Molanus
Jerusalem (1099)
Gospel: Matthew 11:25-27
(Saint Bonaventure)
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Today’s Gospel
has Jesus praising the Father for hiding deep truths from the wise and learned
while revealing them to the merest of children. It’s a different kind of praise,
celebrating that understanding God doesn’t require brilliance, credentials, or
sophistication, only the open, receptive posture of a child.
We can
overcomplicate faith, trying to think our way into it, reading enough, arguing
well enough, having the right answer for every objection. There’s a place for
that, but Jesus is pointing somewhere simpler. The people who actually receive
Him most fully aren’t always the most educated in the room. They are often the
ones who never stopped fully trusting in Him.
Approach Jesus
today like a child instead of a debater. Forget the idea that you will have it
all figured out before you begin to pray. Stop performing certainty you don’t
actually feel. Bring Him your questions the way a child asks why the sky is
blue, genuinely curious, not defensive, and not needing to win the conversation;
it is that posture, that Jesus says, is exactly the one that sees what the wise
so often miss.
Today, the
Marian calendar acknowledges Our Lady of Molanus in Jerusalem, 1099, and the
Church remembers Saint Bonaventure, the Doctor of the Church, who spent a
brilliant life insisting that wisdom and simple love of God were never in
competition. Our Lady herself received the greatest mystery in history with
nothing but a child’s trusting yes. Here is a question to ponder: Where in your
life have you been overthinking
something specific that God is inviting you to simply receive?
Rosary Man Jim 🌹
Freely given. Freely shared.
