The Gospel for Monday of the 28th week in Ordinary Time is taken from Luke 11:29 32 while still more people gathered in the crowd, Jesus said to them, this generation is an evil generation. It seeks a sign, but no sign will be given it except the sign of Jonah. Just as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so will the Son of Man be to this generation. At the judgment the Queen of the south will rise with the men of this generation and she will condemn them because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon and there is someone greater than Solomon here. At the judgment the men of Nineveh will arise with this generation and condemn it because at the preaching of Jonah they repented and there was someone greater than Jonah. Here Jesus points out the evil that’s in the hearts of the Pharisees and the scribes.

It is clear that if someone is close minded so much that if someone comes to judge them or try to correct them and they absolutely refuse to change, or if they are so closed minded that they refuse to look at anything that might lead them more deeply into the truth, then they are obstacles to everything that Jesus calls us to be. We need to be open to criticism. We need to know that there are things we still don’t yet know and seek it with all our heart. Foreign Closing Prayer Father, keep our minds open, our hearts open to all that you long to show us and teach us. Help us not to be afraid to be wrong, but only to seek what is true and what is right. And we ask this in Jesus name.

Amen.