Homily for Wednesday of the 24th Week in Ordinary Time

Some very good and conscientious people criticized John the Baptist. Some found his austere lifestyle to be strange. Many of these same people also grumbled about Jesus and how He associated with sinners and pagans. The habit of filtering reality through our own prejudices can lead us to reject things that are actually of God.

This really isn’t faith, nor is it healthy logic; it seeks to fit God carefully into our self-conceived and prearranged perception of reality.

What we truly need is to be malleable in our faith, allowing ourselves to be shaped by the will of God, rather than seeking to shape it to our own will. In the words of Isaiah the Prophet:

 

…Lord, you are our father;

we are the clay and you our potter:

we are all the work of your hand.[1]

 

[1] Isaiah 64:7