2 December 2025 – Tuesday of the 1st week of Advent
HOMILY
The Gospel we have just read has some points of contact with the Magnificat of the Virgin Mary, which are very interesting and extremely revealing.
When Jesus gives glory to His Father for revealing to the little ones the things hidden from the wise, the little ones He speaks of are His disciples. And these were not naive children. They were adult men who knew the ways of the world: Matthew, the tax collector, knew how to make money; Jude, the Zealot, knew the art of guerrilla warfare; Peter, James and John were fishermen who knew how to steer their boat on the lake and cast their nets. They had given up everything to become disciples of Jesus. When He invites them – and us – to simplicity of heart, He is not inviting us to a childish attitude or a childish kind of spirituality. He invites us to a very demanding form of poverty of heart. He invites us to follow Him as disciples and therefore to abandon all our sources of security, especially our thirst for power, just as His disciples had given up everything to follow Him.