Join Msgr. Don Fischer as he reads and delivers a short reflection on today’s gospel, followed by 3 1/2 minutes of contemplative music and a closing prayer. Msgr. Don hopes that today’s reflection on the gospel will empower you to carry the Word in your heart throughout the day.

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Gospel
Luke 11:27-28

While Jesus was speaking,
a woman from the crowd called out and said to him,
“Blessed is the womb that carried you
and the breasts at which you nursed.”
He replied,
“Rather, blessed are those
who hear the word of God and observe it.”

Reflection

Jesus so often teaches something and you have to ponder what He meant when He said the words that He said that would bring that truth to you until you find it. And it's interesting that here He sees someone giving praise to His mother who deserves all the honor in the world, in a sense. But He makes a simple point.

Yes, the world is blessed by the woman who opened her heart and enabled the Messiah to be born in the flesh. But the real blessing is what she brought into the world. The one who then is born into us and fills us with truth and light and love.

Closing Prayer

Father. As we ponder this story of your entering into the world, your humanity is so important. We need to know that God wanted us to see something so clearly that a man born of a woman represented for all of us the intense desire that you have in your heart to bring us into life. Bless us with a greater awareness of the humanity of Jesus as the model of who we are to become. And we ask this through Jesus’ name, Amen.