PRI Reflections on Scripture | Saturday of the 19th Week in Ordinary Time

Finding God In Our Hearts with Msgr. Don Fischer · Aug 16, 2025 · 5m

Gospel

Matthew 19:13-15

Children were brought to Jesus

that he might lay his hands on them and pray.

The disciples rebuked them, but Jesus said,

"Let the children come to me, and do not prevent them;

for the Kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these."

After he placed his hands on them, he went away.

Reflection

There's something so powerful about giving us all an image of who we are to become, by going back to who we were when we were born, when we came into this world. It underscores that so often that things have happened to us, that rob us of what we had naturally as children. And they're…