July 19, 2020
XVI Sunday in Ordinary Time
Year A
The Spirit comes to the aid of our weakness by giving us patience, meekness, trust in God, which prevail over adverse logics.
The Spirit comes to the aid of our weakness, Saint Paul writes to the Romans. We must invoke him to support us also in that weakness that manifests itself as impatience, as a claim to eradicate the evil that we find around us immediately, and that we fear compromises the growth of good wheat, as the parable of Jesus reminds us. living these impatient attitudes, the Spirit communicates to us the attitude of God, who cares for all things and judges meekly, as the book of Wisdom reveals to us. The meekness of God, however, is not surrender in the face of evil, or passive and submissive indulgence; it is and remains the principle of justice, all aimed at making the good grain mature and prevail. The meekness of God, who is incarnated in Jesus, knows how to feed and support good wheat, encourage its growth, paying great attention to its maturation. It is a meekness supported by a great hope: Jesus is certain that, despite the presence of the tares that cannot be immediately eradicated, however the harvest will take place: at the time of the harvest … Thus God makes his kingdom grow among us. It does not separate it from reality, whatever it is, intertwined as it is with lights and shadows, but it makes it contagious, pervasive, precisely because it is mild, tenacious, patient. Able to measure himself against the duration of time and to prevail over adverse logics.
Commentary by Comunità di Dumenza
Translation by f. Mark Hargreaves, Prinknash Abbey