Have you ever noticed that sometimes the hardest place for Jesus to be recognized was His own hometown? The people of Nazareth knew Him—or at least they thought they did. They had watched Him grow up. They knew His family. So when they heard Him teaching with such wisdom, instead of asking, “Could this really be the Messiah?” they said, “Isn't this the carpenter's son?” They thought they knew Him, and because they thought they knew Him, they missed who He really was. I think that can happen to us as well. We've heard the Gospel many times. We come to Mass week after week. We know the prayers. We know what comes next. And if we're not careful, we can stop listening—not because God has stopped speaking, but because we think we've already heard everything He has to say. That is really what happened in the first reading. Jeremiah was faithfully speaking God's word, but the people did not want to hear it. Rather than listening, they wanted to silence him. Today the Church gives us St. Ignatius of Loyola as an example of someone who never stopped listening. He began life as a soldier, dreaming of fame and military success. But after being seriously wounded in battle, he spent months recovering. During that time he read the life of Christ and the lives of the saints. Those books changed him. He realized that God was calling him to something much greater. St. Ignatius eventually founded the Society of Jesus—the Jesuits—and wrote what we know as the Spiritual Exercises, helping countless people learn how to listen for God's voice and discover His will in their daily lives.  Perhaps that is the lesson for us today. Every morning, before we begin our day, we can simply ask, “Lord, what are You trying to teach me today?” Not yesterday. Today. If we keep asking that question, we will never become like the people of Nazareth, who thought they already knew Jesus. Instead, we will continue to grow in our relationship with Him for the rest of our lives.