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4th Sunday in Ordinary Time Lk 4/21-30 |
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| Background: Jesus patently did not see himself as a political and military leader. Indeed his claims are in striking contrast of the messianic portrait in the reading from Jeremiah which is the first reading today. However, his claims were clearly offensive to his fellow townspeople. Indeed, he might have had less trouble with them if he announced, like several other populist leaders of his era, that he was proclaiming a holy war against the Romans and would lead a march on Jerusalem. As we saw last Sunday, however, his vision of the New Age was drastically different. So he was offensive to his neighbors both because he made and outrageous claim and because the claim was not, as they saw it, radical enough. |
read the padre |
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Story: A famous novelist came back to
his home town after many years. He had pledged to contribute two million dollars for a new
hospital. Many of his friends from his school days were invited to a reception for him and
his wife. Some of them ignored the invitation. Why only two million, they muttered. He
could have paid for the whole hospital with all the money he has. The rest went to the
party, but they were not particularly happy about the whole event. Who does this guy think
he is? He'd been a quiet, unobtrusive little guy when he was in school, the kind of person
you'd hardly notice. He generally was not invited anywhere. None of the women in his class
would have considered dating him if they had been asked, only he never asked.
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