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We are sent to witness the universal love of God.
Short time ago (I mean: last Sunday or the text before today’s gospel), people in the synagogue of Nazareth looked at Jesus with admiration, and now they burst in murderous anger against him. What wrong has he done?
The Gospel of this Sunday continues from last Sunday’s, where Jesus announced in the synagogue his mission by reading a text from the prophet Isaiah. He has come to bring good news to the poor, liberation to captives, eyesight to the blind and liberation to the oppressed. People, in great admiration, had their eyes fixed on him. Surprisingly, that doesn’t last long; suddenly things just turn sour and people just want to finish with Jesus by throwing him off the top of the escarpment. What’s the matter?
Envy and jealousy, from childhood war
Do you remember your childhood? If you don’t, then, just observe children at play and before long you will be shocked to see how children too can struggle quite dangerously. Where does that come from? Often from the desire to have everything for oneself. Everything should be for me and the other has no right to possess anything -their behaviour seems to declare. No wonder, the most interesting, and indeed the most wanted, toy is that one which the other child is using. That’s why children find themselves in a tug of war -fighting for the same object. Unfortunately, such babyish avarice can follow us to adulthood -so the battle continues. Our families, groups, places of work, and even parishes can testify.
Them too? Even the widow of Zarephath and to Naaman the pagan leper?
The message of liberation that Jesus announces, the people who listen to him in the synagogue think it’s for them alone. It’s unthinkable that pagans, whom they consider as dirty dogs, should also be associated with this favour that God wants to offer his people. But Jesus does not carry a separatist message. He’s the image of God in whom every person is a beloved daughter and a beloved son of the Father. Hence, his message is not for few privileged people, but universal message for humanity. Salvation is not a right of inheritance that circulates in the family; it’s an offer that each person chooses to receive, or refuse; Jew or pagan, there’s no difference. God has done that before,
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Jesus fills the empty jars of our life as he did it at the wedding of Cana
At Christmas we celebrated the Son of God who became man like us. God, in Jesus, comes at the wedding of your life. We can see in this Sunday’s readings. I marvel at the image of God that comes out from the readings, his determination and his way of loving-so human! You would say, he feels and speaks like us. It shouldn’t be a surprise. In fact, when we are truly human, we can see ourselves in him. Because we are made in his image and likeness.
I shall get this done
What strikes us is, there where he says, in the first reading: “For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until her vindication shines out like the dawn…” Indeed, don’t we react the same way when something urgent weighs on our heart? And we won’t rest till it’s done.
What is the main preoccupation of God ? The well-being of his people. He wants them to regain confidence in themselves and get back on their feet. It is new life he wants for them,
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Mw’ibatisimu ya Yezu muri Yordani, ijuru n’isi bisubira kwunga ubucuti, twese tugasubizwa iteka twari twambuwe n’igicumuro.
Bavukanyi, uyu musi duhimbaje Ibatisimu y’Umukama, Umusi mukuru usozera igihe ca Noheli, ariko ugaca utubera intângo y’ukugenda kuba mu vyo twungutse muri uru rukurikirane rw’imisi mikuru ya Noheli.
1. Amahoro ni ingabirano ya Noheli.
Ingabirano rero ihambaye turonka mu misi mikuru ya Noheli, ni ya mahoro twaririmba tuvuga duti: « Gloria, Imana ininahazwe mw’ijuru, kw’isi naho haze amahoro, ku bantu Imana ikunda bakayikundira ». None iyo ngabirano twarayakiriye? Turemesha ayo mahoro gute mu ngo zacu, mu mibano yacu, ku kazi aho dukorera….? Abarundi bati: « Iyija kurisha ihera ku nama ». Ntihararengerana rero, umwe wese arabe ingingo yigiriye y’ukuremesha amahoro ; ataco ariyemeza naho, ntave ng’aha ataco yibwiye ngo abe umunyamahoro aho abaye, aho akorera,….
Uyu musi rero, Yezu atugiye imbere, aramanutse muri Yordani, rwa rûzi ba Sêkúru bajabuka ngo bashobore gushika mu gihugu c’isezerano, igihugu c’amata n’ubuki, igihugu c’amahoro, bavuye mu buja mu Misiri, mu gihugu carangwa n’ukubahonyangira agateka, abāhó bacinyiza ab’Imana. None ubwo twesse turiteguriye kujabukana na Musa mushasha, (ashira amakanda yiwe mu makanda ya Yozuwe yajabukanye Yordani igihugu c’Imana) we Ndongozi y’ukwemera kwacu?
Twumvise ko Yezu yaje guhabwa ibatisimu hamwe n’abandi banyakabi bose: mbega nawe yari umunyakabi? Haba namba. Mbere twimvise ko (suite…)
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