Monday of the Twenty-second week in Ordinary Time
Saint Raymund Nonnatus, (1204-1240)
Commentary of the day
Saint Bonaventure : "Isn't this the son of Joseph?"
Reading
1 Thess. 4:13-18.
We do not want you to be unaware, brothers, 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.
Lk 4:16-30.
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. They also asked, "Isn't this 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.
Copyright © Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, USCCB
Commentary of the day
Saint Bonaventure (1221-1274), Franciscan, Doctor of the Church
Meditations on the life of Christ ; Opera omnia, vol. 12,
"Isn't this the son of Joseph?"
It seems to me that they have attained the highest degree of all who, with
all their hearts and without duplicity, have sufficient mastery over
themselves to seek nothing other than to be despised, accounted for nothing
and live in utter abasement... So long as you haven't attained to this,
believe yourself to have achieved nothing. For since, indeed, we are all
«unprofitable servants», in the Lord's words (Lk 17,10), even were we to
carry out everything well, so long as we haven't attained this degree of
lowliness we shan't yet be standing in the truth but will be, and will be
proceeding in vanity... You know, too, how the Lord Jesus
began to act first of all before he began to teach. Later on he would say:
«Learn from me for I am meek and humble in heart» (Mt 11,29). But first of
all he wanted to put this truly into practice and without duplicity. He did
this with all his heart just as, with all his heart and in very truth, he
was humble and meek. There was no «yes» and «no» in him (cf 2Cor 1,19). He
immersed himself so deeply in humility, scorn and abjection, annihilated
himself so much in the eyes of all, that when he started to preach,
proclaim God's wonders and accomplish miracles and wonderful works, no one
showed him any regard. He was despised and mocked, saying: «Isn't this the
carpenter's son?» and similar words. So the words of the apostle Paul
became true: «He humbled himself, taking the form of a slave» (Phil 2,7).
Not just an ordinary servant through his incarnation, but a slave of no
account according to the manner of a humble and despised life.
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