Jesus said to the people in the synagogue at Nazareth: “Amen, I say to you, no prophet is accepted in his own native place” . . . They rose up, drove him out of the town, and led him to the brow of the hill on which their town had been built, to hurl him down headlong. But he passed through the midst of them and went away. (Lk 4:24-30)
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Why did the people of his hometown want to kill Jesus? Because he spoke about God helping foreigners: the widow of Zarephath and Naaman the Syrian. If Jesus were to preach that message today . . . well, he’d get the same reaction.
These reflections are a result of more than 40 years of ministry as a Roman Catholic priest. Most of these years I spent in the Diocese of Charlotte which covers Western North Carolina. Now I am retired, and live in Medellín, Colombia where I continue to serve as a priest in the Archdiocese of Medellín.
Monday, Week III, Lent
