Today’s liturgy tells us about reading the Book of God’s Word at the assembly of faithful. This is a gathering of the Israelites with a living Word, which in the case of first reading is announced by Ezra, while in the Gospel, Jesus Christ himself develops a scroll of the book and reads it to everyone. Today, however, let us pay attention to something very important: the book is read for everyone, and not privately whether to the small group of “initiates”. The word is directed not only “to me”, but even more “to us”. God wants to not only save a single man, but also to strengthen His Church in unity. The same – the answer to God’s Word is not just a private matter, but it is to pursue yourself in communication with those whom God put me next to me.
Also, this refers today’s second reading about members of the body, so that everyone in the Church can feel as an important part, regardless of age, education or position. Every man in whose heart God sows His Word is important, not because of his values, but precisely because he is a part of the body, as in today’s reminder of St. Paul on the nature of the Church as a compound organism. So let’s take today’s Word of God from the mouth of Jesus himself, but not only as a private person, but as members of His body – the Church. Let us do it for the greater God’s glory and also for ourselves, because united through the Word we feel that more unites us than divides, and that we really create one Body.