The Pearl of Great Price

Join Father Peter John Cameron as he reflects on the parable of the pearl of great price!

Transcript

00:00 This weekend we're gonna hear Jesus tell the parable of the pearl of great price

00:04 I can't hear this parable without thinking of that beautiful novella by John Steinbeck called the pearl

00:11 Which is really it's a sad story because it's about this poor pearl driver who finds this this

00:19 Unbelievably valuable pearl but it it wrecks his whole life

00:23 But at one point

00:26 reflecting on the whole experience

00:27 It says for it is said that humans are never satisfied

00:32 That you give them one thing and they want something more and this is said in disparagement

00:38 Whereas it is one of the greatest talents the species has and one that has made it superior to the animals

00:47 that are satisfied with what they have and

00:50 This really is the point that if we know that there are great pearls and we found them

00:57 then of course there must be a super great pearl that exceeds them all and

01:02 That's what the human heart is going after and what is the pearl of great price?

01:07 Well, it's something's of trying to satisfy the heart like nothing else

01:11 It obviously has to be a kind of a love because that's what our heart is made for

01:16 So it is a love that's indestructible. It's a love that knows the worst about me and

01:24 Still wants me. It's a love that forgives all of my faults and it's a love that satisfies

01:30 every desire so that I have perfect fulfillment and satisfaction and of course

01:37 The pearl of great price then is Jesus and that's what he's saying

01:41 Look at your heart and look at me and look at how there is this great

01:47 correspondence between the happiness that you're looking for and what you found in my friendship and just surrender

01:54 everything to that love and

01:57 Then the wealth that we're really looking for will be ours