In elementary school, I loved whenever the hearing test people would show up. I always got super excited because I knew I had such good hearing that they would always tell me how impressed they were. Despite years of having the volume way up on my headphones and car radio, it’s still pretty decent. There is a difference between hearing and listening though.
Hearing is what we do when we have Netflix on in the background while doing other stuff. We hear the noise and the conversations, but we’re not actually listening. Listening means we actually have to receive the message into our brains and think. We can hear our parents tell us to do something, but listening would mean not spacing out. This Sunday’s Gospel touched on this perfectly and is applicable to the Mass itself. Are you simply hearing God’s Word, the homily, and the prayers? Or are you actually listening to them?
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