The WORD in other words (2018) by Brother Romy Abulad SVD – Christ the King Seminary, Quezon City
Saturday 26th Week in Ordinary Time
Perhaps no man has suffered in his life like Job, who lost everything he loved and cared about, including his family and even the health of his own body. Yet, today we are witness to his great end and how the Lord has more than fully rewarded his faith and fidelity. What a singular moment when Job finally said: “Now I have seen you with my own eyes!”
The Lord speaks of “things which are hidden from the wise and the learned,” things which are however accessible to the childlike. The great philosopher, Socrates, was proclaimed wise by the oracle of Delphi precisely because, of all people, only he knew that he did not know. Learned ignorance – this is how Nicholas of Cusa calls it.
So many of us think we know the truth, and that’s why we want everybody else to believe in us and join our cause, which is what lies at the root of all our wars and social divisions. The call of our time is to seek for that original naivete which is accessible only to a child. As the little prince says, there are things that adults do not anymore see. The paradigm shift implies a transformed self, a return to “the heart whose reasons reason itself cannot understand.”
