Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament

February 15, 2026

6^th Sunday in Ordinary Time

We speak of a wisdom to those who are mature…we speak God’s wisdom, mysterious, hidden… The gospel reading today presents us with the Ten Commandments and our call to be faithful in living these precepts in our daily lives. They are the touchstone of our moral lives. Oftentimes, the measure of our holiness.

Jesus speaks clearly of how these are the bedrock of our living the covenant relationship. And yet, he speaks God’s wisdom of living the law in a spirit of love rather than fear. Unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven. He invites us to go deeper into the inside of the commandments. You have heard it said…but I say to you…, The invitation is to move beyond doing the minimum to embracing the inside, the spirit of the commandment.

How different might our world be if we understood how killing our anger can be when it is unleashed on those who are different from us or who challenge us? Would we allow the treatment of immigrants to continue? Or if we understood the inside of not committing adultery, would we not be more willing to find ways to end human trafficking? We are challenged today to seek the inside of each of the commandments.

Paul reminds us: what eye has not seen and ear has not heard, and what has not entered the human heart, what God has prepared for those who love him. Each time we come together for Eucharist, we get a glimpse into the vision of what God has prepared for us. We are nourished with both Word and Christ’s Body and given peace.

As we begin Lent, we are invited to choose life over death and good over evil. What will we choose today?

Prayer:

Instruct me, O Lord, in the way of your statutes, that I may exactly observe them. Give me discernment, that I may observe your law and keep it with all my heart. (Psalm 119: 33-34)