Prophets are not without honor expect in their hometown and among their own people.
In today’s gospel, we see Jesus coming to his hometown Nazareth and preaching the good news and doing miracles and wonders among his people. But his people rejected him saying, “We know him. His brothers and sisters are living among us. His father is Joseph the carpenter and His mother is Mary”. They ridiculed and rejected him.
Once all the intellectuals and scientists came together and decided saying, “we can do anything and everything. We discover and invent. We make and destroy things and we don’t need God anymore. So they called God and said, “god, we don’t need you anymore because we can do anything and everything without you. God accepted their conclusion and said, before I go away from you, “I would like to test you. Yes, can you make man as I did” they said, ‘it is every easy. So one of them bent down and took a handful of dirt to make man and god said, “Stop… right there. It is my dirt. Make your own’
We all need God and without him, nothing is possible. We may build and reshape things, we may discover and invent things but without god, we are nothing.
The people of Nazareth rejected Jesus because He was preaching about the love of God our Father. He asked people to love god with their whole heart, body and mind. He said that our God is not a punishing god but forgiving and forgetting god. He love never ends and His forgiveness has no limit.
Once an older woman came to a priest after Mass and said, “Father, last night Jesus appeared and talked to me. The priest looked at her and said, “That is wonderful. God bless you and go home” but she insisted and said,, “Father, Jesus talked to me last night” then the priest said to her, “the next time, when Jesus appear to you, just ask him about my sins”
Then she didn’t show up for two weeks and when she came again, the priest looked at her and asked, “Did Jesus talk to you and did you ask about my sins”. She said, “Yes, father, I did and what did he say, he said, he forgot all your sins”
Yes, our God not only forgives our sins and he also forgets all our sins. When Jesus preached the love and forgiveness of God, the people of Nazareth made fun of him saying he is just like you and me and then rejected him.
They did not accept him because he asked them to love neighbors and others as themselves.Once a rabbi asked him disciples, “how do you know the night is gone and the day is here?”
One of them said, “When you can distinguish a goat from a sheep in the distance then you may say that the night is gone and the day is here. The other said when you can distinguish a fig tree from a peach tree in the distance then you may say the night is gone and the day is here. Every one came up with different answers and the rabbi was not satisfied and answered saying if you see the face of your brother or sister in any human being, then you may say that the night is gone and the day is here”
Unlike the people of Nazareth, let us love God and accept others and thus celebrate our life each and every day. Amen.
In today’s gospel, we see Jesus coming to his hometown Nazareth and preaching the good news and doing miracles and wonders among his people. But his people rejected him saying, “We know him. His brothers and sisters are living among us. His father is Joseph the carpenter and His mother is Mary”. They ridiculed and rejected him.
Once all the intellectuals and scientists came together and decided saying, “we can do anything and everything. We discover and invent. We make and destroy things and we don’t need God anymore. So they called God and said, “god, we don’t need you anymore because we can do anything and everything without you. God accepted their conclusion and said, before I go away from you, “I would like to test you. Yes, can you make man as I did” they said, ‘it is every easy. So one of them bent down and took a handful of dirt to make man and god said, “Stop… right there. It is my dirt. Make your own’
We all need God and without him, nothing is possible. We may build and reshape things, we may discover and invent things but without god, we are nothing.
The people of Nazareth rejected Jesus because He was preaching about the love of God our Father. He asked people to love god with their whole heart, body and mind. He said that our God is not a punishing god but forgiving and forgetting god. He love never ends and His forgiveness has no limit.
Once an older woman came to a priest after Mass and said, “Father, last night Jesus appeared and talked to me. The priest looked at her and said, “That is wonderful. God bless you and go home” but she insisted and said,, “Father, Jesus talked to me last night” then the priest said to her, “the next time, when Jesus appear to you, just ask him about my sins”
Then she didn’t show up for two weeks and when she came again, the priest looked at her and asked, “Did Jesus talk to you and did you ask about my sins”. She said, “Yes, father, I did and what did he say, he said, he forgot all your sins”
Yes, our God not only forgives our sins and he also forgets all our sins. When Jesus preached the love and forgiveness of God, the people of Nazareth made fun of him saying he is just like you and me and then rejected him.
They did not accept him because he asked them to love neighbors and others as themselves.Once a rabbi asked him disciples, “how do you know the night is gone and the day is here?”
One of them said, “When you can distinguish a goat from a sheep in the distance then you may say that the night is gone and the day is here. The other said when you can distinguish a fig tree from a peach tree in the distance then you may say the night is gone and the day is here. Every one came up with different answers and the rabbi was not satisfied and answered saying if you see the face of your brother or sister in any human being, then you may say that the night is gone and the day is here”
Unlike the people of Nazareth, let us love God and accept others and thus celebrate our life each and every day. Amen.
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