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Gospel Reflection for Thursday, January 30, 2025
The parables of Jesus remain relevant because they are attractive, captivating, and thought-provoking. With just a few words, they invite people to “enter” the Kingdom of God and to patiently and hopefully build a different, more fraternal world—the kind of world God desires.
The Kingdom, like Jesus Himself, is not meant to stay hidden or secret but to be lived, proclaimed, and witnessed. Jesus avoids anything hidden or kept in secret; He doesn’t want us to become a sect or a separate, closed-off world.
He often repeated: “Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear.” “If something is hidden, it is meant to be disclosed; if something is done in secret, it is meant to come to light.” Jesus is essentially saying that we should have nothing to hide, that we should be transparent so that everyone can see and feel our way of living—a life that inspires others to believe in what we believe and to live as we live. We must recognize the great gift of the light of the Gospel and use well the gifts we have received.
To follow Jesus, we need to “have ears to hear”—to listen to His message, open our hearts, and align ourselves with Him. That is how the journey of being a Christian begins.
With gratitude,