Episode 3465: Homily (Tuesday, August 26, 2025)

Friends, here is my homily for today. In the first reading St. Paul refers to himself, metaphorically, as a nursing mother. In doing so, he says he offered everything he had received from God to nurse or form his children, the Christians of Thessalonica. Accordingly, he offered them not only the Gospel, but offered himself fully, in a sense, as a mother does for her children. This means that the disciple of Christ cannot offer himself merely partially in nursing his children. Moreover, in the Gospel Jesus says that this offering of himself begins interiorly, not exteriorly. For this reason, for Jesus, the interior life has primacy in forming or nursing children through prayer, contemplation, and the study of God's Word. This interior formation purifies or cleanses not just the inside of a person, but also the outside. This alone forms children to become mature adults. In Christ with Blessed Mary, Friar Mariano D. Veliz, O.P.