Gathering all around the one - Jesus Chris and the Catholic Church

Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Reading 1 - Is 56:1, 6-7

Reading 2 - Rom 11:13-15, 29-32

Gospel - Mt 15:21-28

The Catholic Church is truly intended to be a house of prayer for all nations, for all peoples. That's why Catholic means universal. That's why we have a Catholic Church in every country. That's why we have the mass in every language so that we can continue to fulfill that mission, to spread the gospel to new audiences that so desperately need those miracles, just like the Canaanite woman The key for us is to be welcoming of those people who are welcome here. As the opening song said old and young, saint and sinner, rich and poor. We're all one in the eyes of God. We are all sinners in need of salvation. And Jesus, that Good Shepherd wants to gather all of us as lambs into his arms. But we're living in a time in history where people only want to talk about the things that separate us. The things we disagree about, the things that divide us. That's modern day Pharisees that instead of finding ways to bring us together, we're finding ways to build walls to keep people further and further apart. But Jesus is the bridge. He's the bridge between heaven and earth. He's the bridge between darkness and light, death and new life. And so let us persevere and persist in our faith in him, just like that Canaanite woman. So that that same son of David. Why pity on us all.