October 31 - Tuesday of the 30th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Rm.8:18-25; Ps.126:1-6; Lk.13:18-21) “Hoping for what we cannot see means awaiting it with patient endurance.” We cannot see the coming of the kingdom of heaven. It comes so gradually; it rises imperceptibly, “like yeast which a woman took to knead into three measures of flour.” It grows like the tiny mustard seed, which “became a large shrub and the birds of the air nested in its branches.” A most fruitful reign is the reign of God, and well worth the wait. As Paul says, “I consider the sufferings of the present to be as nothing compared with the glory to be revealed in us.” But wait we…
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