Thursday of the Thirty-second Week in Ordinary Time
Gospel text Lk 17:20-25
Asked by the Pharisees when the Kingdom of God would come, Jesus said in reply, “The coming of the Kingdom of God cannot be observed, and no one will announce, ‘Look, here it is’."
Gospel's Commentary
Today we have another not very intelligent question. This time it comes from the Pharisees. It is the typical question of human curiosity that forgets what is essential. What matters is not the "when" but the "what." Among other things, because the Kingdom of Heaven has already begun among us, discreetly and without noise: the Church, the Sacraments, the Word of God, the faithful… Does that seem like little to you? If Jesus had not come…
—Jesus has come and brought us what is essential: God. So what about wars, hunger, injustice? Those things happen because God has come and we have not followed Him!