Saturday August 14, 2021 - Nineteenth week of Ordinary Time - Blessed are you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, you have revealed to the little ones the mysteries of the Kingdom - Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew 19, 13-15

By the example of the children, Jesus teaches us, we who both build up and walk towards the kingdom of Heaven. Childhood is a stage in human life, but also a period in which we acquire goodness and virtues making us worthy of the kingdom of Heaven. Childhood is the period of dependence, a sign of insignificance and fragility, pushing to seek refuge and help, but above all pushing to approach God. Jesus invites us to fall back into childhood so that we realize our status as children of God.

The greatest temptation, by taking oneself too adult, is to believe that one can be sufficient for oneself and that one can provide for alone the needs to the point of forgetting and worse still to push aside God who is the source of life of our being. Saint Augustine declared: "You created us for you, we will never find respite except near you" and the Psalms confirm it: "If the Lord is not with us, we work in vain".

May we never stray from our God and may the grace that unites us to him always accompany us.