Man on a Mission
Jesus' Nazareth Manifesto, 2/2
Announcements for January 29, 2022:
Our Men's Group meets next Saturday. For more information and to get connected, please send me a note.
Join us for an OLMC School Open House with Project Fair on Sunday, January 30th from 9:00am to 1:00pm. The event will kick off Catholic Schools Week - please plan to stop by, and bring your friends and family, too!
With no national collection this month, our beyond-the-tithe opportunity is for our parish cemetery. You can find the cemetery fund in the dropdown menu of our Parish Campaigns.
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Dear Saints,
Today this Scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing.
In his Nazareth Manifesto, the end of which we find in this weekend's Gospel passage, Jesus sets out God’s agenda. He speaks gracious words, that is, words of God’s grace.
Jesus was summoning God's people to live a life of blessing for others. Apparently (take a look at the Gospel passage) that’s not what they wanted.
Is it surprising that Jesus was rejected by his own people? Maybe. But how have we responded to his summons? How are we lighting up the world with God's love?
One way to find out is to use the standard Saint Paul offers us in his great poem (1 Corinthians 13), which we also hear this weekend:
Love is patient, love is kind.
It is not jealous, it is not pompous,
It is not inflated, it is not rude,
it does not seek its own interests,
it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury,
it does not rejoice over wrongdoing
but rejoices with the truth.
The more we can say – in every place and with every person – that we are patient and kind; that we are neither jealous, nor pompous, nor inflated, nor rude; that we don’t seek our own interests and are not quick-tempered; that we don’t brood over injury or rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoice with the truth, the more faithfully we have responded to God’s gracious plan and put it into effect.
Take Saint Paul’s poem and read it every night. Ask for God’s forgiveness in your failings and his strength for the new day, that you might rise again with Jesus to make flesh God's love for the world!
I love you, my friends, and I look forward to seeing you very soon.
Christ's Peace,
Father Daniel
δοῦλος Χριστοῦ Ἰησοῦ
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Check out this weekend's readings:
The Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Christ in the Synagogue
Nikolaĭ Nikolaevich Ge, 1868