Gospel: Matthew 7: 6: 12-14
Wide roads into ancient cities are impressive and tempting paths to take. Their breadth and width are so massive, the doorways and arches into the city so grand that one can't help but imagine a great train of carts and caravans in procession into the grand entrance. How embarrassing it would be to be just a simple pilgrim with a walking staff and sack on such a road and gate!
In calling Jesus' disciples and sending them out he ordered them to carry nothing with them, to have little possessions. The disciple is to avoid the wide road to avoid both the temptation to great possessions and the mocking of the world. In having little possessions, the disciple is to find the narrow road and gate into the city, the way of the pilgrim.
The Church is once again been called to be a pilgrim people, one with few possessions and no pretensions. The disciple is again reminded of the folly of the wide road which history both distant and recent all too abundant. The narrow road is the one less taken, but one that is more satisfying and the one that is our way of salvation.
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