Homily for Wednesday of the 24th Week in Ordinary Time

Some good and conscientious (yet mistaken) people criticized John the Baptist, finding his austere lifestyle strange. Many of these same individuals also grumbled about Jesus and His associations with sinners and pagans. This tendency to filter reality through our own prejudices can lead us to reject what is genuinely of God.

This behavior is neither genuine faith nor sound reasoning; it seeks to fit God into our preconceived and limited understanding of reality. 

What we truly need is to be open and flexible in our faith, allowing ourselves to be shaped by God’s will rather than trying to shape it according to our own desires. In the words of the Prophet Isaiah:
 
…Lord, you are our father;
we are the clay and you our potter:
we are all the work of your hand.