Author Bios
MSGR. CHARLES FINK
Director of spiritual formation, Seminary of the Immaculate Conception, Huntington, NY
Both the prophet Isaiah and Jesus tell us this Sunday that the word of God is like seed strewn in the soil of our hearts and that it will infallibly produce fruit.
On August 9 the Church celebrates the feast of one of her more recently canonized saints.
What God is saying to us in this Sunday’s readings might be summed up something like this:
The Book of Wisdom, from which we take our first reading this Sunday, may have been the very last book of the Old Testament
When as a boy Solomon was told by God to ask for anything he wanted and he’d receive it, he asked for an understanding heart,
