Friends,
The readings for this Sunday tell us of the nourishment that comes from heaven and of our need to draw everlasting life from our relationship with Jesus – as well as pursuing wise and Spirit-filled paths in life.
The first reading makes explicit the value of Wisdom, depicted as a woman seeking and inviting everyone to come and be nourished at her table of learning. The Psalm continues last week’s spirit of thanksgiving, and the psalmist tells us that those who seek the Lord lack no blessing.
St. Paul, in the second reading, encourages the early Christians to live with awareness and intelligence and not to be thoughtless. He advises them to discern and recognize the will of the Lord in their times and to live lives filled with the Holy Spirit. This message continues to be very relevant to us in the present.
In the Gospel, Jesus invites those around him to believe in him, to be in communion with him, to live in him, and to draw life from him, just as he draws life from the living Father.
This week, let’s pray for the grace to seek the nourishment of a life-giving relationship with God and with one another.
Joy and peace.
