January 7, 2019
1st Reading:
1 Jn 3:22-4:6
Gospel:
Mt 4:12-17, 23-25
When Jesus heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew into Galilee. He left Nazareth and went to settle down in Capernaum, a town by the lake of Galilee, at the border of Zebulun and Naphtali.
In this way the word of the prophet Isaiah was fulfilled: Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali crossed by the Road of the Sea, and you who live by the Jordan, Galilee, land of pagans, listen:
The people who lived in darkness have seen a great light; on those who live in the land of the shadow of death, a light has shone.
From that time on Jesus began to proclaim his message, “Change your ways: the kingdom of heaven is near.”
Jesus went around all Galilee, teaching in their sy-nagogues, proclaiming the good news of the Kingdom, and curing all kinds of sickness and disease among the people.
The news about him spread through the whole of Syria, and the people brought all their sick to him, and all those who suffered: the possessed, the deranged, the paralyzed, and he healed them all. Large crowds followed him from Galilee and the Ten Cities, from Jerusalem, Judea, and from across the Jordan.
D@iGITAL EXPERIENCE
D@iLY GOSPEL IN OUR LIFE EXPERIENCE:
When confronted with a big decision to make in life, hermeneutics can lock us up in a maze of circuitous problem analysis to the point that we become hostage of our own inaction. Consider this story:
A Convention of religious superiors from diffe-rent congregations was interrupted by sudden power ou-tage. “Oh, it’s one of the po-wer company’s end-of-the-month tricks to remind consumers it’s pay time!” said the Jesuit.
“The NPA may have a hand in this”, opined the Redemptorist. “My dear brothers, it is God’s way of reminding us that we are the light of the world”, preached the Dominican. “Ave Maria, let us pray for the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary in this time of darkness”, said the Franciscan.
Suddenly, there was light, and that was the only time they noticed that the Salesian priest was missing. “There, up there!” said one pointing to the Salesian priest who just finished putting a jumper across the busted fuse of the electrical box. Because one decided to act in time, they who lived in the shadow of brownout “have seen a great light”.
Jesus, too, had to withdraw to the desert to discern the kind of Messiah he would be. Yet he did not lock himself up in perpetual discernment but broke away from time to time to heal the sick and comfort the broken hearted. In life we call this balance: Work and prayer make two oars that keep life’s boat in its direction. -(Atty.) Rev. Fr. Dan Domingo P. de los Angeles, Jr., D.M.
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