Wednesday, 15th Week in Ordinary Time, 2020

I bless you father for hiding these things from the learned and clever.
And revealing them to mere children.
We worry about whether we are in error.
But the truth behind error is sometimes hidden.

Reason is faith’s dragging anchor.
Worrying rationality is the enemy of religion.
Children have this beguiling acceptance and no previous rancour.
We may have to imitate that lack of demand for precision.

St Bonaventure was a mendicant friar committed to poverty.
He wrote that the simple could have a clearer knowledge of God than the wise .
Belief in lack of wisdom may be a rarity.
But is it up to us to despise.

Can we ever have the child’s simple acceptance.
Can we lay aside for a moment all resistance.