Friday of the Thirteenth week in Ordinary Time
Commentary of the day
Saint Ambrose (c.340-397), Bishop of Milan and Doctor of the Church
Commentary on Saint Luke's gospel, 5, 16 ; SC 45
"Follow me"
[After the healing of the paralytic] there then comes the call of the tax gatherer to Christ's mysteries. Christ commands him to follow him, not with physical, bodily movements but with a change of heart. And this man who, up to that moment, greedily drew profit from commerce and unmercifully exploited the hard labor and dangers of the workers, left everything at one call. He who took others' possessions forsakes his own. Leaving his unworthy counter he follows wholeheartedly after Christ.
And he prepared a great feast: for he who receives Christ into his interior abode is filled with immeasurable well-being, with abounding joy. As for the Lord, he willingly goes into the house and sits down at the table prepared by the love of him who believed.
But now see how the malevolence of unbelievers is stirred up... and, at once, the difference is revealed between the disciples of the Law and the disciples of grace. To hold fast to the Law is to endure hunger without relief in a fasting heart. To welcome the Word of God into the interior depths of one's heart is to be revived by food in plenty and the eternal spring. It is to hunger and thirst no more (Jn 6,35).
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