Homily for Tuesday
21st Week of Ordinary Time
Aug. 26, 2025
Ps 139: 1-6
1 Thes 2: 1-8
Christian Brothers, St. Joseph’s Residence,
N.R.
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| David, traditionally regarded as author of many psalms (St. Mary's Church, Fredericksburg) |
Today’s
psalm acknowledges how deeply, how intimately, the Lord knows us. He knows us inside out: “you understand my thoughts from afar” (139:2).
The
Lord doesn’t know us so as to find fault with us—tho of course he knows our
failings better than we do. Paul
commented to the Corinthians: “I’m not
conscious of anything against me, but I don’t thereby stand acquitted; the one
who judges me is the Lord” (I, 4:4).
But
the Lord doesn’t exclaim at us, “Woe to you, Brothers!” (cf. Matt 23). He loves us.
He’s judged us “worthy to be entrusted with the Gospel” (1 Thes 2:4)—to
hear the Gospel, to be converted by the Gospel, to be saved by the Gospel—and,
by his grace, to live by the Gospel.
Living by the Gospel, we are gentle with one another “as a nursing
mother cares for her children” (2:7) and “share our very selves” with one
another (2:8), as Jesus has shared himself with us.
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