It is not fair to take the children's bread and cast it to dogs

For this foreign woman in today’s Gospel (Matthew 15:21-28), Jesus is truly a Teacher, Educator, Trainer. Through this Canaanite, Jesus teaches every man that you can not surrender at the request (Have mercy on me Lord, Son of David, my daughter is tormented by a demon), you can’t stop at the first prayer, the first cry, the first scream. We must persevere until that miracle is ripped from Him.

Today Jesus is taken by the intelligence and wisdom of this woman. Jesus will never act against knowledge and wisdom. They are his very essence. He will never act against his own nature. This wisdom, this insistence, this tenacity is what Jesus wants of all those who call upon him. If this happens, the prayer is always answered, always listened to. The miracle will be done.

These thoughts come not from me but from a rough translation of a homily presented by The Apostolic Movement – Roman Rite.

This woman was not one of the lost sheep of the house of Israel, the only ones that Jesus was sent for but yet though her insistence and wisdom He ended up answering even her prayer. As I write this the a beautiful song starts playing in my head;

I have loved you with an everlasting love
I have called you, and you are mine
They continue by saying that, Jesus is the Man, form men, with men, to lift them up, raise them, reconstitute, regenerate them, to give them a new dignity, much greater than they had received from God at the time of their creation in the image and likeness of their Creator and Lord.

Jesus is the Father’s love, his eternal life, his Omnipotence. Everything of Jesus is from the Father, all grace and truth, all wisdom and intelligence, every miracle is a sign. Nothing is impossible because the Father had put everything into his hands. He can heal all sickness, every disease, can raise the dead, can liberate from evil spirits, even cast out demons. Nothing of earth and sky can oppose his will.

Jesus is the Master. He always lets men question him, but he also asks them questions. He shows them how to grow in faith. He leads his disciples to have a strong, healthy, intelligent and wise faith. A faith that is not wise and intelligent does not help us. It is a faith poor, weak, almost inexistent, that does not have the solid foundation of wisdom.

Jesus is the Educator who leads his followers to grow of faith in faith, of wisdom in wisdom, of truth in truth, of doctrine in doctrine. Jesus doesn’t want us to stop at the start of all things. There is the beginning, but also improvement, completion and the fullness not only of faith but of every other virtue. With divine diligence he takes us and leads us to a harmonious growth integral for the fullness of man.

Jesus is the trainer who draws from his divine wisdom all those forms and procedures that are necessary for each person where he can make the jump to his pure truth.

I have loved you with an everlasting love
I have called you, and you are mine

seek the face of the lord and long for him
he will bring you his light and his peace
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I have loved you with an everlasting love
I have called you, and you are mine

seek the face of the lord and long for him
he will bring you his joy and his hope