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Saturday of the Nineteenth week in Ordinary Time

"Let the children come to me, and do not prevent them"

God is the source and origin of all things and because it is in him that, as it is written, “we live and move and have our being” (Acts 17,28), it is most certainly also from him that we possess all the love with which we love our children. The whole universe and all humankind are offspring of their Creator and so, by means of the love that causes us to love our children, he wants us to comprehend how much he loves his own children. Since it is written that: “the invisible attributes of God have been able to be understood and perceived in what he has made” (Rm 1,20), so he has wanted to make us understand his love for us through the love he makes us have for our own works. And just as it is written that he wanted “all fatherhood in heaven and on earth to take its name from him” (Eph 3,15), so he has wanted us to recognise in him a father's love towards us.

What am I saying? A father's? His love is far greater than a father's, as these words of our Savior in the gospel prove: “God so loved the world that he gave his only Son” for the life of the world (Jn 3,16). And the apostle Paul also says: “God did not spare his own Son but handed him over for us all. How will he not also give us everything else along with him?” (Rm 8,32).