It must have been a moment – I was going to say, of disappointment – when Christ saw the great crowds that followed him, but among them only simple people – peasants, fisherfolk.
If perchance any learned persons drew near, he would see them withdraw with disdain, as though laughing at the teaching of that mad preacher.
And when Christ was left alone, raising his eyes to his Father he uttered the fondness, the sorrow, the affliction of his heart: Why, Father, when I have offered them a teaching so sublime, some refuse to accept it from me and others, the simple, do accept it from me?
“I give you thanks, Father...
for you have hidden these things from the learned and proud...
and have revealed them to simple people.
Yes, Father, thus you have willed.”
The initiative is God’s.
Jesus Christ is not at fault...
nor is the church, or the preacher.
And when some would sneer that only simple people follow us...
here in the gospel is the explanation.
[9.7.1978]
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