Wonderful language can say both things by only saying one or the other.
Language is clever and celebrates different view points, but bottom line, we have to ask ourselves: Who does what to whom — and who really is responsible for “becoming vain” in one’s reasoning and developing “senseless minds” that become “darkened”?
As the alleluia verse says so simply and bluntly: “The word of God is living an effective, able to discern reflections and thoughts of the heart.”
In a way, God and God’s work make it happen; in reality, don’t we do it because we don’t really listen to that word?
+ And Jesus has to call a spade a spade, as he labels the Pharisees for who and what they are and who and what they have become: “Fools!”
Yes, fools,
They just don’t get it. They just won’t listen. They just don’t see. They are fools.
And fools they remained, no matter what word they received from the word — the word made flesh!
Father Perry D. Leiker is the 13th pastor of St. Bernard Catholic Church. Reach him at (323) 255-6142. Email Father Perry at pleiker@stbernard-church.com. Follow Father Perry on Twitter: @MrDeano76.
