Hebrews 12:4-7,11-15; Psalm 103 The Lord's kindness is everlasting to those who fear him;
The gospel tells of Jesus' encounter with those in his native place.
All who knew him also heard him and were astonished. They began to question whether or not Jesus was authentic.
"Is he not the carpenter, the son of Mary, and the brother of James and Joseph and Judas and Simon? Are not his sisters here with us? And they took offense at him."
Pope Benedict reminds us that the argument against faith and truth suggest that we can never have the truth but we must always be in a state of searching for it. But we must ask the question "what kind of search is this that can never reach a conclusion? Is it really searching, or is it just an unwillingness to find..."
The men and women in Jesus' home have been told to be on the look out for the messiah yet they remain unwilling to find because God doesn't work according to their expectations.
We should all expect God to do great things even if it means that He does it in a manner we do not expect! As Pope Benedict reminds us, "the dissimilarity between what we know and the true reality in itself is always infinitely greater than the similarity."
We should all keep searching but we pray for the willingness to humbly accept the truth when it is found
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