PRI Reflections on Scripture | Tuesday of the 2nd Week of Advent

Finding God In Our Hearts with Msgr. Don Fischer · Dec 9, 2025 · 5m

Gospel

Matthew 18:12-14

Jesus said to his disciples:

"What is your opinion?

If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them goes astray,

will he not leave the ninety-nine in the hills

and go in search of the stray?

And if he finds it, amen, I say to you, he rejoices more over it

than over the ninety-nine that did not stray.

In just the same way, it is not the will of your heavenly Father

that one of these little ones be lost."

Reflection

I often wonder how the disciples would receive a simple story like this, based on their own human experiences of being preoccupied by what is lost and wanting…