Sunday 16 February 2020: Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Such was said to your ancestors; but I am speaking to you

...The Old Testament gave witness to the eternal truth of God and God’s designs for humanity, but it was only a witness in hints and shadows, giving rise to boundless expectations concerning the future. These expectations were fulfilled in Jesus Christ; but as Paul tells us in the second reading, this fulfilment was to be a stumbling block to those whose hopes were shaped by expectations of an earthly triumph of God’s people – God’s final self-expressions in the Saviour’s Paschal Mystery was something greater, a ‘hidden wisdom that God predestined to be our glory before the ages began’...

Extract by John Thornhill sm - read more at The Emmaus Series