All wisdom comes from God (HOMILY FOR MONDAY OF THE 7TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME
Homily for Monday of the 7th Week in Ordinary Sirach 1:1-10. Psalm 93:1abc,1d-2,5. Mark 9:14-29 All wisdom comes from God With Faith, all things are possible "All wisdom comes from the Lord and is with him forever" (Sir.1:1). If wisdom comes from God, we can not seek wisdom without loving God. If we truly want to be close to God, we must be wise. "The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom." With the gift of wisdom, we can come to the understanding that through prayers, we stay close to God in love, and through fasting, we mortify our flesh so as to be godly, and with prayer and fasting we can defeat the evil spirits in our world. Concerning prayer and fasting, Jesus said to his disciples in today's Gospel, concerning the boy with a mute spirit: "This kind can not be driven out by anything but prayer and fasting" (Mark 9:29). The boy's father had brought the boy to Christ's disciples, but they could not expel the evil spirit. That the father ...