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<b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><span style="color:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">Friends,
<span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b> today in the Gospel we hear Jesus in intimate conversation with his
Father.</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>The passage invites us into very deep mysteries</b></span>. <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>Jesus addresses
his Father and thereby reveals his own deepest identity within the Holy
Trinity</b></span>. <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>He says, "I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for
although you have hidden these things from
the wise and learned, you have revealed them to the little ones."</b></span></span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"> </span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">It
is important to keep in mind that this is not simply a good and holy
man addressing God, but rather <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>the very Son of God addressing his
Father.</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>We are being given a share in the inner life of God, the
conversation between the first two Trinitarian persons.</b></span></span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"> </span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">And
<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>what are the "things" that have been concealed from <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">the learned </span>and
revealed to the little ones? Nothing other than the mystery of Jesus’
relationship to his Father, the love that obtains between Father and
Son, the inner life of God. From the beginning, this is what God wanted
to give us.</b></span></span></b></b></span></b></b></b></b></b>
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