Sunday
31st January 2010
Fourth
Sunday in Ordinary Time
Jesus said: “I
tell you solemnly, no prophet is ever accepted
in his own country”. The
word prophet conjures up the image of someone
who foretells the future, a bit like a fortune-teller.
No! A prophet is someone who gets to the deepest
reality of human life and is able to proclaim
that this deepest reality will come to the surface
sooner or later and calls us to make it sooner.
Generally people don’t like to hear about
these deepest realities because they get used
to the way things are. A good example of this
is: the deepest reality of marriage is that
it is a sacrament, a source of Christ’s
presence in and salvation of the world we live
in. Couples need to do a lot more to bring their
love to that pitch. Every home is a Domestic
Church, a sacred place. Every parish is the
living Body of Christ. We have a lot of change
to work on.
Fr. Johnny Doherty,
C.Ss.R.
“This is
my Son, the Beloved; my favour rests on him.”
