3.23.14

Lectio:   Lk 4.24-30                                                   

Meditatio: "When the people in the synagogue heard this, they were all filled with fury.”
Lk 4. 28

Oratio: "O God, how self-centered we are!

I remember when Jesus returned to Nazareth after His first public ministry tour, they expected Him to work wonders for them as He had done for others. But when Jesus told them about two of their greatest prophets, Elijah and Elisha, working miracles for foreigners to emphasize that no prophet is accepted in his home town, they wanted to kill Him for they considered His statements a very great insult.  How inhuman their reaction! How inhuman are our treatments of Your Son when we refused to accept His teachings as proclaimed by His church - thinking we know better. In prayer seek the grace to be a docile believer knowing we can trust the Pope who is Christ’s vicar here on earth.

I  ask this and all things in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with You
and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever.
                                               
Contemplatio: spend some time in silence and meditate on the selected passage and hear what.
God is saying to you

Operatio: “when the people....heard...fury”; the people of His hometown were greatly insulted when Jesus reminded them of the beneficiaries of their two great prophets were Gentiles and that no prophet is accepted in his native place. They then tried to kill Him by driving Him out  of town and intending to hurl Him over a bluff of their hill. But He walked away; showing once again His power and that His agenda was God’s, and not theirs. In prayer seek the grace to accept the plans of God as enunciated by the Church as that is what God expects of His children.

Tomorrow's reading: Lk 1.26-38