6th Monday of the year

The Pharisees asked for a sign. St. Paul tells us how Gentiles look for wisdom, Jews for miracles. But he preached neither, only Jesus Christ crucified, a scandal to the Jews and foolishness to the Gentiles.

Are we also looking for the wrong thing? Aren’t our frustrations at times a sign that tell us that we have been barking up the wrong tree?

Our generation is still looking, at times, like the Jews, for signs of the Divine, at times for practical solutions that simplify our lives. It is still hard to preach a God that is human and not so practical. Jesus is still “sighing deeply” in our days.