Gospel: Luke 4:14-22
Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and news of him
spread throughout the whole region. He taught in their synagogues and was
praised by all.
He came to Nazareth, where he had grown up, and went according to his
custom into the synagogue on the sabbath day. He stood up to read and was
handed a scroll of the prophet Isaiah. He unrolled the scroll and found the
passage where it was written: The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has
anointed me to bring glad tidings to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim
liberty to captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go
free, and to proclaim a year acceptable to the Lord.
Rolling up the scroll, he handed it back to the attendant and sat down,
and the eyes of all in the synagogue looked intently at him. He said to them,
“Today this Scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing.” And all spoke
highly of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his mouth.
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Reflection:
Are you living and fulfilling your baptismal mission?
We have a mission for our existence, we are not mere vapors in this world
we are human beings. We were anointed by the Sacrament of Baptism to continue
the mission of Jesus. Have we shared His worlds in the bible, have we already
helped the poor, the hungry the oppressed and the homeless?
It is very important that from time to time we have a self-evaluation of
our lives in this world. For we may just be living our lives according to what
this world dictates us to do. For example, the dictum of this world about
self-gratification and wanton accumulation of material wealth.
What would happen to us if we embrace this world and we purposely forget
the teaching of Jesus? We would end up like a walking dead person, walking and
breathing in this world without a purpose.
God did not create us to become creatures of this world. He created us
not to accumulate wealth! He created us so that we could share whatever
material and intellectual wealth that we have. God did not create us to
live our life according to the dictates of this world. God created us to live
our life according to the life of Jesus.
Let us therefore live the life of Jesus, let us spread His teachings.
There are more rewards in doing this than embracing the dictates of this world.
Worldly satisfactions are short lived and problem filled that is sugar coated
with enticing pleasures.
Pleasures that do not last, pleasures that only plunge
us to deeper enslavement of the devil and pleasures that will eventually
destroy us.– Marino J. Dasmarinas
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