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Monday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time
Gospel text
Mt 12:38-42
Mt 12:38-42
Some of the scribes and Pharisees said to Jesus, “Teacher, we wish to see a sign from you.” He said to them in reply, “An evil and unfaithful generation seeks a sign, but no sign will be given it except the sign of Jonah the prophet."
Gospel's Commentary
Today we hear from Jesus an answer that fits us “like a glove.” When we pray little, we become materialistic and then accept as true only what we can touch. Worse still, we also expect God to adapt Himself to this foolish way of thinking. And we cannot touch the “sign of Jonah” (Christ’s Resurrection)… We can accept it!
—The materialist would be willing to accept a God who proves that He is God. But such a God would no longer be God, but a clown. Where do you want to go: to Heaven or to the circus?