23 August 2025 - Saturday of the 20th week of Ordinary Time
Ruth 2:1-3, 8-11; 4:13-17; Matthew 23:1-12
HOMILY
Jesus' main and most absolute statement in this Gospel is: ‘You have only one Father, the one in heaven.’ It follows that anyone who exercises fatherhood or motherhood in the family, society or the Church, exercises that of God, of whom they are the representative or vicar. Once this is clearly recognized, everything falls into place. The Christian community, no more than any other human society, can be an amorphous group without structure. Because of the social nature of human beings, the community is made up of a set of relationships, and these relationships are linked to the various services that the members of the community render to one another.