Sunday – 26th Week of Ordinary Time B
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, we come together to reflect on God's word as given to us in the Scriptures, reminding ourselves to open our hearts to what the Lord is asking us. In our first reading from the Book of Numbers, we witness an extraordinary event involving Moses and the seventy elders chosen to help him govern the people of Israel. The Spirit of God comes upon these elders and they begin to prophesy, declaring God’s truth and will. However, two men, Eldad and Medad, remain in the camp, yet they also receive the Spirit and prophesy. When Joshua sees this, he tells Moses to stop them, fearing they are acting out of turn. But Moses replies with a beautiful longing: “Would that all the people of the Lord were prophets! Would that the Lord might bestow his Spirit on them all!”