![]() ![]() Faith can never be solely one or the other. In that sense, 'anyone who has will be given more'. The more we grow in this relationship with him, the more we will see and hear. The gospel reading suggests that we need to engage with Jesus and respond to his invitation, before we can actually understand him. Hence, he needs to talk to us in parables in order to help us somehow grasp what goes beyond our human minds. He is aware that we simply cannot grasp everything he says. In today's Gospel reading Jesus acknowledges that there is a mysterious quality to his teaching and his whole ministry. 'But happy are your eyes because they see, your ears because they hear! I tell you solemnly, many prophets and holy men longed to see what you see, and never saw it to hear what you hear, and never heard it.' You will listen and listen again, but not understand, see and see again, but not perceive.įor the heart of this nation has grown coarse, their ears are dull of hearing, and they have shut their eyes, for fear they should see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and be converted and be healed by me. So in their case this prophecy of Isaiah is being fulfilled: The reason I talk to them in parables is that they look without seeing and listen without hearing or understanding. For anyone who has will be given more, and he will have more than enough but from anyone who has not, even what he has will be taken away. The disciples went up to Jesus and asked, 'Why do you talk to them in parables?' 'Because' he replied, 'the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven are revealed to you, but they are not revealed to them. Faith and Reason united, by Ludwig Seitz, 1887 © Vatican Museums, Galleria dei Candelabri ![]()
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