Week 536–The Word–Fr Tony Percy–Wisdom

The Word–Fr Tony Percy–Wisdom (Fr Tony says the first reading is from the Book of Wisdom, one of the later books in the Old Testament. We're living in a modern age where there's been an explosion of information and we can't equate wisdom necessarily with information. Then we have knowledge, is that wisdom? What happens in the Bible is that wisdom is given to us as a gift, the wisdom of God coming through the gifts of confirmation, the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit, wisdom, understanding, counsel, knowledge, fortitude, piety, and fear of the Lord or reverence, those seven wonderful gifts. It's a gift that God is willing to give. Do we have the capacity or the willingness to receive the gift? The first reading is from chapter six in wisdom. it speaks about loving wisdom, looking for wisdom, walking on the way for wisdom, wisdom waiting for you, being alert to wisdom, and desiring wisdom. All this begs the question, what on earth is wisdom? King Solomon asks for wisdom; the wisdom is to have a heart that discerns between good and evil. Let me finish with a definition of wisdom. I personally think now after a little bit of reflection that wisdom is not only thinking the way God thinks about things and events and people through the lens of creative love and redemptive love. It's also feeling like God about things, and that to me that is real wisdom.)