Today’s responsorial
psalm, Ps 139, reminds us that God searches us and knows us. “…You understand my thoughts from afar,” as He did, for example, the thoughts of Peter, John and James; Mary of
Magdala, his own Mother Mary, the woman who touched the hem of His garment and
was healed, the woman he met at the well and told that her present husband was not her
husband. Yes, God knows you and me intimately. “Even before a word is on…[our] my tongue[s],”
God knows it all. God knows when our thoughts are negative or positive,
critical or accepting; yes, even venomous or generously kind and merciful like
His own. God loves us no matter how wayward
or holy our thoughts might be. God
guides our thinking to the way God thinks.
God directs us to thoughts that generate positive energy, that deepen
our hope and our faith and the hope and faith of others.
Today we celebrate the
feast of St. Monica. For thirty years she prayed for Augustine, her wayward
son, a child living an immoral life, a child who had turned away from Christ. God knew her agonizing thoughts, saw her weep
over her son’s disobedience to God’s Commandments to love God above all (the
first three commandments) and to love his neighbor as himself (the other seven
commandments). Through her, Jesus
interceded for Augustine. Her waiting
upon the Lord was richly blessed, as her son converted, abandoned a life of sin
and consecrated his live to the Lord as His priestly servant.
To what is God calling
you and me? In what ways are we in need of conversion in our thoughts and in
our actions? And for whom are we praying?
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