Jeremiah 18:1-6 / Matthew 13:47-58
Certain things go by default such that it is made obvious that the default is the first option as well as the preferred option.
Besides the default option, there could be alternative options. Alternative options can be useful depending on situations and circumstances.
Under the normal and usual circumstances, we will hear the Word of God spoken to us at Mass and at other para-liturgical occasions.
But besides this default setting, God will also speak in other ways.
In the 1st reading, the Lord told Jeremiah to go to the potter's house and there, the Lord will let him hear what He has to say to him.
Jeremiah saw how the potter worked with the clay and whenever the vessel came out wrong, the potter worked on it again turning it into another vessel.
It was then that the Lord revealed to Jeremiah that the House of Israel was like the clay in the potter's hands and that the Lord will keep reworking on His people whenever they went wrong in their ways.
Certainly, God speaks to us when we come for Mass and He will also speak to us in the ordinary events of our lives.
More so He will speak to us whenever we go wrong in our ways so as to make us go back to His ways.
May we have the eyes to see the Lord's hand shaping us and correcting us and may we have the ears to listen to what the Lord is saying to us.