July 15 - Wednesday of the 15th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Is.10:5-7,13-16; Ps.94:5-10,14-15; Mt.11:25-27) "Shall He who instructs nations not chastise, He who teaches men knowledge?" Again we learn the basic teaching of the Lord: The exalted are humbled and the humbled exalted. In our first reading "the Lord of hosts" promises to "send among His fat ones leanness" – condemning Assyria for the pride it takes in its "own power"; and in our gospel Jesus "offer[s] praise" to His "Father, Lord of heaven and earth," declaring, "What you have hidden from the learned and the clever you have revealed to the merest children." "Judgment shall again be with…
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