Invited to reflect on God’s wisdom this Sunday, Sirach reminds us that our capacity to choose right from wrong – our capacity to discern – comes from God’s boundless wisdom. We’re made for discernment. This capacity, St. Paul reminds us, expresses God’s mysterious wisdom. Afterall, we can choose wrongly and yet God draws close, enters into relationship with us, entrusts God-self to us. And the gospel reminds us why – to fulfill what God has in store for us: the glory of holiness.
A call to the Congregation of the Resurrection – a calling first experience 190 years ago by spiritually, emotionally, and materially destitute young men – starts by recognizing God’s unconditional love. That love, despite our weakness and deficiencies, always continues until it achieves its aim. By all counts, such boundless love characterizes God’s boundless wisdom.
