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officialyourdailyinspiration · 4 months

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Elijah Flees to Horeb

1 And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword. 2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to morrow about this time. 3 And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beer-sheba, which belongeth to Judah, and left his servant there.

4 But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers. 5 And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat. 6 And he looked, and, behold, there was a cake baken on the coals, and a cruse of water at his head. And he did eat and drink, and laid him down again. 7 And the angel of the Lord came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise and eat; because the journey is too great for thee. 8 And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.

9 And he came thither unto a cave, and lodged there; and, behold, the word of the Lord came to him, and he said unto him, What doest thou here, Elijah? 10 And he said, I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away. 11 And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the Lord. And, behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the Lord was not in the earthquake: 12 and after the earthquake a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice. 13 And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entering in of the cave. And, behold, there came a voice unto him, and said, What doest thou here, Elijah? 14 And he said, I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away. 15 And the Lord said unto him, Go, return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus: and when thou comest, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria: 16 and Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint to be king over Israel: and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah shalt thou anoint to be prophet in thy room. 17 And it shall come to pass, that him that escapeth the sword of Hazael shall Jehu slay: and him that escapeth from the sword of Jehu shall Elisha slay. 18 Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him.

19 So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him. 20 And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee. And he said unto him, Go back again: for what have I done to thee? 21 And he returned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen, and slew them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave unto the people, and they did eat. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and ministered unto him. — 1 Kings 19 | Authorized King James Version (AKJV) The Holy Bible: Authorized King James Version; Cambridge University Press, the Crown’s patentee in the UK. All rights reserved. Cross References: Hebrews 11:34; Hebrews 11:37-38; 1 Kings 18:22; 1 Kings 18:30; 1 Kings 18:40; 2 Kings 2:8; 2 Kings 8:8; 2 Kings 8:12-13; 2 Kings 9:2; Ruth 1:17; 1 Samuel 6:14; 1 Samuel 11:5; 1 Samuel 18:19; 1 Samuel 28:14; 2 Samuel 3:9; 2 Samuel 24:22 Genesis 16:8; Genesis 21:14; Genesis 21:31; Genesis 28:12; Numbers 11:15; Job 4:6; Job 6:9; Zechariah 4:1; Zechariah 4:6; Matthew 4:2; Matthew 26:7; Luke 4:2; Exodus 3:1; Exodus 3:6; Exodus 19:20; Exodus 20:5; Exodus 24:12; Romans 11:3-4; Judges 7:22; Daniel 3:18; Hosea 13:2; Luke 9:61-62; Acts 20:37

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frmartinshomiliesandreflections · 9 months

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4th September >> Fr. Martin's Gospel Reflections / Homilies on Luke 4:16-30 for Monday, Twenty Second Week in Ordinary Time: ‘No prophet is ever accepted in his own country’.

Monday, Twenty Second Week in Ordinary Time

Gospel (Except USA) Luke 4:16-30 'This text is being fulfilled today, even as you listen'.

Jesus came to Nazara, where he had been brought up, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day as he usually did. He stood up to read and they handed him the scroll of the prophet Isaiah. Unrolling the scroll he found the place where it is written:

The spirit of the Lord has been given to me, for he has anointed me. He has sent me to bring the good news to the poor, to proclaim liberty to captives and to the blind new sight, to set the downtrodden free, to proclaim the Lord’s year of favour.

He then rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the assistant and sat down. And all eyes in the synagogue were fixed on him. Then he began to speak to them, ‘This text is being fulfilled today even as you listen.’ And he won the approval of all, and they were astonished by the gracious words that came from his lips. They said, ‘This is Joseph’s son, surely?’

But he replied, ‘No doubt you will quote me the saying, “Physician, heal yourself” and tell me, “We have heard all that happened in Capernaum, do the same here in your own countryside.”’ And he went on, ‘I tell you solemnly, no prophet is ever accepted in his own country.

‘There were many widows in Israel, I can assure you, in Elijah’s day, when heaven remained shut for three years and six months and a great famine raged throughout the land, but Elijah was not sent to any one of these: he was sent to a widow at Zarephath, a Sidonian town. And in the prophet Elisha’s time there were many lepers in Israel, but none of these was cured, except the Syrian, Naaman.’ When they heard this everyone in the synagogue was enraged. They sprang to their feet and hustled him out of the town; and they took him up to the brow of the hill their town was built on, intending to throw him down the cliff, but he slipped through the crowd and walked away.

Gospel (USA) Luke 4:16-30 He has sent me to bring glad tidings to the poor. No prophet is accepted in his own native place.

Jesus 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. They also asked, “Is this not the son of Joseph?” He said to them, “Surely you will quote me this proverb, ‘Physician, cure yourself,’ and say, ‘Do here in your native place the things that we heard were done in Capernaum.’” And he said, “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.

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(i) Monday, Twenty Second Week in Ordinary Time

When Jesus announced in Nazareth that he had come to fulfil the mission of Isaiah to bring good news to the poor and proclaim liberty to captives, the people of his home town greatly approved of what he said and were astonished by his gracious words. However, when he went on to identify with two other prophets, Elijah and Elisha, who had ministered to people beyond Israel, in Sidon and in Syria, they were enraged and tried to do away with him. Jesus understood the poor, the captive, the blind and the downtrodden in the broadest possible sense, as from all the nations and not just from Israel. Jesus was revealing the God of Israel to be the God of all humanity, including even the traditional enemies of Israel. It seems the people of Nazareth resisted this vision of a God whose favour embraced all humanity. Jesus was showing that God has no particular favourites, because his favour rests on all, regardless of who they are or where they are from. This is the insight into God that Jesus gives us. The heart of God is very expansive; it has room for all. Jesus wanted the people of Nazareth, and he wants all of us, to have something of this welcoming heart of God that excludes no one. We can exclude ourselves from God’s loving embrace by rejecting God, as the people of Nazareth rejected Jesus. Yet, even when we do that, God continues to call out to us and draw us to himself

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(ii) Monday, Twenty Second Week in Ordinary Time

The gospel reading today shows Jesus being rejected by those who initially accepted him. When he went to his home town of Nazareth and preached there, Luke tells us that ‘he won the approval of all’ and people ‘were astonished by the gracious words that came from his lips’. Within a relatively short space of time, that acceptance changed, first to scepticism, ‘This is Joseph’s son, surely?’, and, finally, to outright and murderous rejection, ‘they took him up to the brow of the hill their town was built on, intending to throw him down the cliff’.The gospel reading tells us that, in response to his rejection in Nazareth, Jesus simply ‘slipped through the crowd and walked away’. This is Luke’s way of saying that Jesus continued on with his mission of proclaiming the good news of God’s favour to all people, including those who had rejected him.Jesus was not held back, much less embittered, by the experience of rejection because he was rooted and grounded in God’s love.At his baptism he had heard the words, ‘You are my Son, the Beloved; my favour rests on you’. Our own lives too are rooted in that same faithful love of God; what God said to Jesus he says to all of us.The conviction that God’s love for us is faithful and enduring can keep us strong and free of bitterness in those times when we too might experience misunderstanding or rejection because of our beliefs.

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(iii) Monday, Twenty Second Week in Ordinary Time

There is a very striking change of mood among the people of Nazareth as they listen to Jesus speak in their synagogue. Initially we are told that ‘they were astonished by the gracious words that came from his lips’. However, by the time Jesus had finished speaking ‘everyone in the synagogue was enraged’, so much so that they hustled Jesus out of the town with a view to throwing him down from the brow of the hill Nazareth was built on. Jesus initially declared that he had come to proclaim good news, especially to the poor, the broken and needy. The people of Nazareth were delighted with this good news, but by the time Jesus had finished speaking his good news had become bad news in their ears. The reason for this was because Jesus went on to announce that his mission of good news was not just to the people of Israel but to the pagans as well, just as the prophets Elijah and Elisha ministered to people outside of Israel. Jesus challenged his townspeople’s narrow, nationalistic, view of God, and they did not like it. Jesus always challenges our view of God. There is always more to God than we imagine; it is only by constantly reflecting on the words and deeds of Jesus that we even begin to know God. It is only in the next life that we will know God as fully as God now knows us.

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(iv) Monday, Twenty Second Week in Ordinary Time

This morning we begin reading from the gospel of Luke, and in this morning’s gospel reading Luke gives us his account of the beginning of Jesus’ public ministry. According to Luke the first words Jesus spoke in his public ministry were the words of the prophet Isaiah. In the synagogue of his home town, Jesus read a passage from the book of Isaiah. The passage Jesus chose said a great deal about how Jesus understood his ministry. He was sent to bring good news to the poor, the captive, the blind, the downtrodden. The focus of his ministry would be those who were in greatest need, both materially and spiritually. Just went on then to identify himself with two other prophets, Elijah and Elisha, who ministered to the needy outside of Israel. Jesus would minister to those in greatest need, regardless of where they were from; the people of Israel, not even the people of Nazareth, would have no special claim on him. The risen Lord continues to minister to us in our need today. In various ways we can all find ourselves poor, captive, blind, downtrodden. The Lord remains good news for us when we find life a struggle for whatever reason. He walks with us, as he walked with the two disciples on the road to Emmaus, to enrich us in our poverty, to free us in our captivity, to enlighten us in our blindness. Whereas the people of Nazareth rejected him, we are called to keep on welcoming him, and to walk with him as he walks with us.

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(v) Monday, Twenty Second Week in Ordinary Time

This morning’s gospel reading begins with an account of the liturgy of the word in the synagogue of Jesus’ home town in Nazareth. Jesus stands up to read from the prophet Isaiah and then sits down to comment on what he read. Jesus indentifies himself with the prophet who was sent to bring good news to the poor, to proclaim liberty to captives, new sight to the blind, to set the downtrodden free. Jesus goes on to identify himself with two other prophets, Elijah and Elisha, who ministered to people outside Israel, a hungry widow from Sidon and a leper from Syria. Jesus was saying to the people of Nazareth that he had come for those in greatest need, regardless of who they were or where they were from. This generous vision Jesus had of his mission made the people of Nazareth very angry. Jesus was one of their own and they expected special treatment. However, the good news is that Jesus has come for us all. If he has favourites it is those who are broken in body, in mind, in spirit. The Lord is constantly reaching out to us in our brokenness, in our pain and suffering. All he asks is that we receive him as he is, on his own terms, which the people of Nazareth could not do. The Lord is always close to all of us; it is our need, our suffering, whatever form it takes, which can bring us close to him.

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(vi) Monday, Twenty Second Week in Ordinary Time

In this morning’s gospel reading we find Jesus in the synagogue of Nazareth announcing what his ministry was going to be about. In a word, he wanted to proclaim the Lord’s year of favour. Jesus would reveal God’s favour for all, especially for those who were usually out of favour, the poor, the captives, the blind and disabled, the downtrodden. We could add to that list, the lost, sinners, widows, all who found themselves on the margins at that time for one reason or another. Jesus was announcing that he was about to reveal the hospitality of God, a hospitality that was as broad as God’s love. This was indeed good news. Yet, strangely, this good news was not well received by the people of his home town. By the end of the gospel reading, they are ready to throw him down the brow of a hill. The final straw seems to have been when Jesus suggested that he would be revealing God’s favour not just to the people of Israel but to pagans as well, just as the prophets Elijah and Elisha had done before him. It seems as if Jesus’ God was just too big for the people of Nazareth, too hospitable, too welcoming, too forgiving, too all embracing, too generous. The gospels will often challenge our image of God. They will break open any narrowness in our vision of God. Yet because the gospels, especially the gospel of Luke, proclaims the favour and hospitality of God, they have the power to transform us, to enrich us in our poverty, to bring us freedom where we were captive, to enlighten our blindness, to give us a sense of belonging to the Lord after we have been lost.

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(vii) Monday, Twenty Second Week in Ordinary Time

Anger is a normal human emotion. In itself it is neither good nor bad. What matters is how we express it. We are all aware that anger is an emotion that needs to be managed. We can find ourselves doing things or saying things in anger that we subsequently come to regret. Anger has the potential to be quite damaging and destructive. We find a good example of that destructive power of anger in this morning’s gospel reading. The words that Jesus spoke in the synagogue of his home town Nazareth triggered strong anger in those who were listening to him, ‘When they heard this, everyone in the synagogue was enraged’. They gave expression to their anger by taking Jesus to the brow of the hill that Nazareth was built on, intending to throw him down the cliff to his death. This is anger at its most destructive. On this occasion, Luke tells us, Jesus was preserved from their deadly intentions. It is strange that the people of Nazareth should react to Jesus in such a deadly way because what Jesus had to say to them was actually good news. He declared that he was God’s anointed one, sent by God to bring the good news of God’s favour, God’s hospitable love, to everyone, especially to those most in need of it, whether they lived in Israel or outside of it. It seems that the people of Nazareth were not comfortable with such a generous God who favoured the most vulnerable, no matter who they were. The gospel reading invites us to ask the question, ‘How do we hear the message of Jesus?’ Is it good news for us today?’ ‘Do I experience it as good news in my own personal life?’

Fr. Martin Hogan.

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pugzman3 · 1 year

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1 Kings 19:18 context

13 And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entering in of the cave. And, behold, there came a voice unto him, and said, What doest thou here, Elijah?

14 And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.

15 And the LORD said unto him, Go, return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus: and when thou comest, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria:

16 And Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint to be king over Israel: and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abelmeholah shalt thou anoint to be prophet in thy room.

17 And it shall come to pass, that him that escapeth the sword of Hazael shall Jehu slay: and him that escapeth from the sword of Jehu shall Elisha slay.

18 Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him.

19 So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him.

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roman-catholic-mass-readings · 9 months

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4th September >> Mass Readings (USA)

Monday, Twenty Second Week in Ordinary Time

(Liturgical Colour: Green: A (1))

First Reading 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 God, through Jesus, will bring with him those who have fallen asleep.

We do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, about those who have fallen asleep, so that you may not grieve like the rest, who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose, so too will God, through Jesus, bring with him those who have fallen asleep. Indeed, we tell you this, on the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will surely not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself, with a word of command, with the voice of an archangel and with the trumpet of God, will come down from heaven, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. Thus we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore, console one another with these words.

The Word of the Lord

R/ Thanks be to God.

Responsorial Psalm Psalm 96:1 and 3, 4-5, 11-12, 13