July 5 th, 2026 (14 Sunday Ordinary A)

Dear brothers and sisters, Christ comes to us in meekness. God comes to us in humility that is why the first reading says : “shout for joy oh daughter Zion for your king shall come to you; a just savior is he, meek, riding on an ass on a colt, the foal of an ass.” To welcome Jesus Christ we also need humility, to be a little one, because Christ meets us in the cross. God reveals his mysteries to the little ones and not to the wise and the learned. That is why for the Christian the cross is the biggest blessing. The cross makes us humble, it makes us little. The cross helps to destroy our human wisdom and our human pride. Christ tells us that in the cross we can find God. In the cross and to the little ones are revealed the mysteries of the kingdom. To us today Christ says to rejoice and to find rest in him and to learn from him because he is meek and humble of heart. Christ wants to show us that with him the cross is gentle and sweet. If we receive the humility of Christ in the cross, we see the love of God manifested to us. We can rejoice and shout for joy because in the cross Christ is offering us his grace and his humility to love like Christ forgiving all offenses and being able to do works of eternal life.

Peace, Fr. Nicholas