WEDNESDAY, FIFTEENTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME
Memorial of Our Lady of Mount Carmel
Ex 3: 1-6, 9-12 Ps 103: 1-4,6-7 Mt 11: 25-27
BLESSED ARE THE LITTLE ONES!
When Moses stood before the burning bush, he was a fugitive, an exile, an ordinary shepherd tending his sheep. Yet God called him to lead His people. Moses, overwhelmed by his own insignificance, asked, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh?” God’s answer was a simple reassurance: “I will be with you.” This is God’s way; He chooses the little ones, the simple, the anawim! Jesus confirms this in the Gospel: “I thank you, Father, for hiding these things from the wise and learned and revealing them to little children.” It is not the self-sufficient but the humble who truly see God. The proud build fortresses around their hearts, but the little ones, those who know their need for God, receive Him with open hands.
The greatest of these little ones is none other than our Blessed Mother, whom we honour today as Our Lady of Mount Carmel. She was a quiet, hidden soul in a forgotten village, yet she was chosen to bear the Saviour of the world. She professed her Fiat, her ‘yes’ to God without calculation or hesitation. Her greatness lay in her simplicity and her total surrender. The Order of Carmel teaches us to follow her way: to live a life hidden in God, where faith is not about grand displays but quiet trust, deep prayer, and total surrender. In St. Thérèse’s of Lisieux, we have another soul who embraced this path of littleness. Thérèse longed to be great, but instead of seeking power or fame, she chose the Little Way – to trust in God like a child trusts its father.
There are times when we feel too weak, too ordinary, too unworthy! Those are precisely the moments that reveal God’s choice of us! He does not seek the strongest or the most capable; He seeks hearts that trust. Like Moses, like Mary, like Thérèse, let us embrace our littleness, surrender to God’s plan, and trust that He can work wonders through us.
Response: The Lord is compassionate and gracious.
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