Daily Gospel Reflection for October 4, 2025

Join us as we reflect, ponder, and pray together inspired by today's Gospel.

Today's Gospel: Luke 10:17-24

Funny how the mind works, how we read a passage from Scripture that flies over our heads, missing an important point. Such is the case in today’s reading.

"[Jesus] rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, ‘I give you praise, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for although you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned you have revealed them to the childlike.’”

In this short passage, our Lord affirms the profound mystery of the Holy Trinity. I wonder how much the Apostles really understood. My guess is that they often did not understand. Instead, they trusted and believed that the Good Shepherd would not lead them astray.

I derive comfort from this thought. We have something in common with even the most brilliant Bible scholars. We can never fully grasp the mysteries of the Trinity, the Incarnation, the Resurrection, and the Eucharist. Realistically, we can only gain a glimpse of these treasured truths.

For many years, I would sit quietly during Eucharistic Adoration and strain my brain, striving mightily to understand the Real Presence. To deepen the mystery, I even learned that all three Persons of the Holy Trinity are present in the Holy Eucharist. I cannot wrap my mind around that truth. Guess what? That’s okay.

St. John Vianney encourages us in a most simple way. One day he saw an old man staring at the tabernacle.

“What are you doing?” he asked.

The old man replied, “I look at Him and He looks at me.”

Here is the essence of prayer. In some ways, prayer is a pilgrimage of the heart and not the mind. I need only to gaze at the tabernacle and trust in Our Lord, trust as purely as a little child.

Ponder:

Is God calling you to read Scripture each day?

Pray:

Dear Lord, help me to take time to relax in Your presence. Please touch my heart that I might better know You.

Copyright 2025 Kathryn Swegart