Gospel for Saturday of the 27th week in ordinary time is taken from Luke 11:27, 28th verse while Jesus was speaking, a woman from the crowd came out and said to him, blessed is the womb that carried you and the breast at which you nursed. He replied, rather, blessed are those who hear the word of God and observe it. When a woman makes a comment about how blessed the person is who is able to bring Jesus into the world, he shifts the emphasis back on what the real reason that Mary and Jesus and all those that went before them, the reason they are blessed, is because of what now is happening. The kingdom of God is at hand. People’s hearts are being filled with the Word of God and they’re being transformed. That’s the blessing that God wants us all to see and feel.

Take a few moments to reflect upon these thoughts and then I will close with a prayer. Foreign Closing Prayer Father, behind every story, in Scripture, behind every experience we have with you and sacramental encounters, all of those are designed for one thing to create within us the kingdom of God and for us to resonate it to the world. Nothing is more important than our believing and our observing that promise. And we ask this in Jesus name, Amen.