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Don't Miss This Epic Moment
5 min
Gospel
Lk 4:14-22
And Jesus returned in the power of the
Spirit into Galilee, and a report concerning him went out through all the surrounding
country. And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified by
all.
And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up; and he
went to the synagogue, as his custom was, on the sabbath day. And he stood up to read;
and there was given to him the book of the prophet Isaiah. He opened the book and found
the place where it was written,
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon
me,because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor.He has sent me to proclaim
release to the captivesand recovering of sight to the blind,to set at liberty those who
are oppressed,to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”
And he
closed the book, and gave it back to the attendant, and sat down; and the eyes of all in
the synagogue were fixed on him. And he began to say to them, “Today this scripture has
been fulfilled in your hearing.” And all spoke well of him, and wondered at the gracious
words which proceeded out of his mouth; and they said, “Is not this Joseph’s son?”
Readings are taken from Dynamic Catholic’s Bible: RSV Catholic Edition.
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Transcript
Don't Miss This Epic Moment
What jumps out at you
today? It's hard to go past that last one, isn't it? Is this not Joseph's son? And
haven't we all had that said about us at some time in our lives, where we do something
that is outside people's understanding of us or outside the box that people want to put
us in, and they say, "Well, hold on a minute. Isn't this the kid I went to school with,"
or, "Isn't this the guy who this," or, "Isn't this the girl who that?" And it's a
question of disbelief, right? This isn't possible because this is just Joseph's son.
Isn't this Joseph's son? Sometimes you're watching a movie, and there's just these epic
moments, right? Well, this is one of those moments. And you've got Jesus. You've got
Jesus coming back to his hometown. You've got Jesus going to the synagogue. You've got
Jesus reading from the Scriptures. Think about that. You've got Jesus reading from the
Scriptures. Imagine being there, right? And Jesus is reading the Scriptures to you. And
then he sits down, and they're all looking at him. And Jesus says - it's like one of
those moments right here - "Today, this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing."
It's one of the greatest moments in history right there. We just read it, "Oh, it's
another reading." Yeah, Matthew gets on here, and he talks to us each day, and he reads
the reading, and then we think about it a little bit, and we pick out a word, a phrase,
an idea. But no, right? Every day we're experiencing these historic moments. And this is
an epic one.
Jesus says, "Today, this scripture has been fulfilled in
your hearing." The reality is, is that the Scriptures are being fulfilled in your
hearing, in your sight, every single day of your life. The question is, do we see it? Do
we hear it? Are we aware of it? Do we observe it? Are we mindful of it? Or are we lost,
caught up in our worldly thinking and unaware of the way God is working with us, in us,
around us, through us because He is. God is working with us, in us, around us, through
us. Let's be more mindful of that as we make our way through the
day.
Have a great day and remember, Be bold, Be Catholic.
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