Gospel: Luke 4: 24-30
Jesus said to the people in the synagogue at Nazareth: “Amen, I say to you, no prophet is accepted in his own native place. Indeed, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah when the sky was closed for three and a half years and a severe famine spread over the entire land. It was to none of these that Elijah was sent, but only to a widow in Zarephath in the land of Sidon. Again, there were many lepers in Israel during the time of Elisha the prophet; yet not one of them was cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian.” When the people in the synagogue heard this, they were all filled with fury. 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.
- prophet: a person who speaks for god or a deity, or by divine inspiration; a person who foretells or predicts what is to come; a person regarded as, or claiming to be, an inspired teacher or leader.
- Is Jesus Christ more than a prophet to me? What other "prophets" - or inspired "teachings" (moral, historical, cultural, political, religious...) - do I adhere to?
- accept (accepted): to take or receive (something offered); receive with approval; to agree or consent to; to regard as true or sound; to make a favorable response to.
- If I look at my daily life, which "teachers" am I consenting to with greater frequency? Are my actions in accord with truths, or the passing "prophet" proclaimed as such by the popular culture?
- fury: unrestrained or violent anger; violence; vehemence; intense, disordered and often destructive rage.
- How do I react to truth proclaimed about my own life? Am I able to honestly look at myself, and calmly be honest about where and when I follow my convictions, and where and when I don't? Are my insecurities such that they don't allow me to accept the truth about myself (both positive and negative), and rather force them out as unacceptable?
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