Reflections

“Children of Wisdom recognize her work.”Commenting on  this  gos- pel reading, Brendan Byrne SJ noted that the words “Wisdom” and “children” represent God’s saving plan and Jesus and John the Baptist, respectively. Both are considered the first children of the plan of God in the sense that John prepared the way for Jesus and preached  a  baptism of repentance; and, that Jesus enacted the divine plan of salva- tion in his ministry of teaching, healing, forgiving and reconci- ling. They are the first product of God’s saving act.Picking up on this under- standing of being “children of Wisdom”, we share in the status of John  and  Jesus its  children, or as the children of the reign of justice, love and mercy, in so far as we do not remain silent in the midst of abuse and exploita- tion of our fellow humans and indiscriminate  destruction  of the natural world. We become its children when we lend a voice to the “voiceless” poor of our society and to the“voiceless” creatures of the natural world. Furthermore, we become its children when we actively pro- mote justice, love and peace, whether individually or collec- tively, in our own family or in the wider community of life.
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