PRI Reflections on Scripture • 8-17-24 - Saturday of the 19th Week in Ordinary Time

Finding God In Our Hearts with Msgr. Don Fischer · Aug 17, 2024 · 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 are many ways in which children become a model for us in the Kingdom of God, and one that I would like to stress is simply the fact that children naturally are drawn to play more than they're drawn to work. Play is spontaneous. It's free. It's filled with imagination and wonder…