Jesus Christ is Himself the Word of God, the Wisdom of God, and the Bread of heaven.
He unites us and gives us the hope of genuine communion with God and among ourselves.
In the Person of Jesus Christ, we encounter the divine Love, the very inner-mystery of God.
The Lord says: He who has ears ought to hear this. Which means pretty much everybody. Ought to hear that Jesus lives, that He makes everything right with His infinite rightness, that in His Church we find mercy and love and heaven.
The Lord says: Receive this Word of God, and understand it. That’s the seed that falls on good soil.
Understand it? What does He mean? Since, in fact, we receive the Word of God with faith. We neither see nor know the tri-une and incarnate God. So how can we possibly understand Him?
Short answer: We cannot and do not understand God during this pilgrimage. But that’s not the ‘understanding’ of which the Lord speaks.
He means: Understand everything else by the light of the truth in which we believe. Start with Christ. By the light of His divine truth, understand everything else.
We believe in Him. So we don’t give up on loving each other, no matter how impossible it might seem to do that. We believe in Christ. So we untiringly seek the truth in every situation, even the apparently hopelessly complicated ones. We believe in Jesus. So we hope for good things to come, even when everything seems hopeless.
The country and the Church only seem to be confused and divided beyond repair. They are not, in fact. Because Jesus reigns. By cleaving to Him, we will be able to help make things better.
That’s the spiritual gift of understanding. We understand: what may seem hopeless is not, in fact, hopeless. What may seem to contradict our faith in God, does not, in fact, contradict it.
It just gives us a chance to believe better, hope more deeply, and love more generously.
Father Mark White Blog 
For the sake of His Sorrowful Passion
Thank you.
Stipulated: Holy Mother Church is crowded near the crown with cowardly clowns. Understood: nothing and no one can conquer her, because….her groom is the Christ. No idea how He sorts out all the wretched dreck, but this ain’t his first reform rodeo. Thanks be to God. St. Francis, pray for us. St. Philip Neri, pray for us.