Although theologians and religious thinkers have sought to illustrate the compatibility of faith and reason, there are instances when reason must be suspended (or at least live with still unresolved questions) while faith nevertheless embraces the deeper reality those questions address. Similarly, in our journey of faith, reason sometimes has to yield to blind faith in believing what makes no sense to reason. This was probably how Abraham obeyed the call to sacrifice Isaac, and what led Martha to open the grave of Lazarus following four days in the tomb. Less dramatically, there are times when what happens in our lives makes little sense and seems to defy reason. Sometimes this necessitates undertaking actions that lead some to suspect that—like Jesus in today’s gospel—we are out of our minds. More than one parent has felt this about a daughter or son entering monastic life! And so, whereas faith and reason are not universally incompatible, there are instances when reason can only go so far and where faith has to carry us further into the mysteries of the God, and God’s providence—mysteries our finite and limited minds can never grasp or fully understand. In pondering, like Mary, these great mysteries in our hearts, may the inadequacy of human reason never undermine God’s gift of faith by which we encounter and enter into the divine mysteries our minds fail to encompass.