‘I shall be filled with the vision of your glory’
The prophet Isaiah (today’s First Reading) reminds us that God’s great desire, revealed through his word, has always been to prepare his chosen people for their full inheritance. God’s word does not return empty-handed.
The Second Reading shows that suffering, though part of the Christian life, will come to an end with the glory of God. St Paul is trying to encourage us not to lose hope in the promise of the Lord’s risen life.
In the Gospel, Jesus asks us a question, as he asked it of those of his own day: are you truly hearing and accepting my word, that it might grow in you and produce much fruit?
The Responsorial Psalm creates a wonderful scene of how God’s word falling on the fertile ground of creation produces bountiful and abundant riches, ever-flowing and brimming over.
Let us pray, this week, that we might be that fertile ground, ready to receive God’s word with open, generous, willing arms.
