August 28 - Friday of the 21st Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(1Cor.1:17-25; Ps.33:1-2,4-5,10-11; Mt.25:1-13) "The world did not come to know Him through its 'wisdom'." "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and thwart the cleverness of the clever," says the Lord God. And in its place we find the Gospel, "the message of the cross," which is "complete absurdity to those who are headed to ruin, but to us who are experiencing salvation it is the power of God." It is this wisdom which saves us, even as the wisdom of the world falls to dust. The wisdom of the world tells us to take our rest, to find our pleasure in the things of this life; the wisdom of God…
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