Saint Gertrude Parish - Lasne

Jesus has words of gratitude towards the Father and, addressing Him, He prays, saying: “Father, Lord of heaven and earth, I praise you” (Lk 10:21).

Jesus does not give thanks to the Father because of extraordinary works, but because He reveals His greatness precisely to the lowly and the humble, to those who go unnoticed, who seem to count for little or nothing, those who have no voice. The Kingdom that Jesus comes to inaugurate has, in fact, this characteristic of which the prophet Isaiah spoke: it is a seed, a small branch growing from a trunk (cf. Isaiah 11:1), a small hope that promises rebirth when all seems to be dying. This is how the Messiah is announced, and, coming in the smallness of a seed, He can only be recognized by the lowly, by those who, without great pretensions, know how to recognize the hidden details, the traces of God in a seemingly lost history.