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Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Mk 6/1-6 |
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| Background: Jesus seems to have thought of himself as a prophet, but a unique and special kind of prophet, one that enjoyed a special relationship with God and one whose mission it was to announce the fulfillment of God’s king of love, but a kingdom which was radically different from that which was expected – a kingdom in which God’s forgiving loving was to be reflected in the relationships of every day life instead of in nationalist military victories. He was a young man, perhaps much younger than the vague "thirty" years which the scripture attributes to him. He was forceful, dynamic, attractive. His "good news" energized and excited people, but his different take on the "kingdom" made them uneasy and even offended some. His friends and neighbors undoubtedly like him, but, as those who are close always tend to do, they wanted to know "who he thought he was." How could this promising and likeable young man suddenly decide that he was the last and the greatest of the prophets. |
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Story: Once upon a time a young man (a yuppie to tell the truth) strolled in to a Chicago Sports bar with a stack of computer print-out. He laid the paper on the bar, pound the bar with a beer bottle, and announced, "listen up folks, I’ve got news for you. I’ve developed a new software program which predicts the baseball winners for the next three summers. It is absolutely certain that the Chicago Cubs will begin the next century by winning the pennant and the world series. I’ll give ten to one odds? Do I have any takers?" Everyone in the bar laughed and hooted. Who did this lunk head think he was? He’d never been to a baseball game in his life. He didn’t watch television games. He didn’t even know that it was almost a hundred years since the Cubs had last won a pennant. All he had was his goofy program. Who did he think he was. So he had no trouble collecting a lot of bets. In the year 2000 he made a ton of money. |
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