Ijambo ry’Imana dushikirizwa kuri uwu musi w’Imana wa mbere wo mu Karema, naho dukunda kuryitirira ukugeragezwa kwa Yezu, nkundire tubihindukize ukundi, tuvyerekeze ku kwemera kwacu, n’ingene tukugaragaza, cane cane iyo rugeranyeko. Nkako nyene, ibisomwa twasomewe, uko ari bitatu, biragaruka kuri ukwo kugaragaza ukwemera : ukwemera kwaranze/kwaranga bene Israyeli, ari nakwo kwemera Pawulo Mweranda agarukako mw’ikete yandikiye Abanyaroma. Yezu arashimangira imigenderanire afitaniye na Se mu kumwumviriza no mu kumuyoboka. Muri iyi misi 40, dusabe Umukama adukomereze ukwemera, tumurikiwe na Mutima Mweranda, nk’Uko Luka Mweranda aduherekeza kuri iyi Karema (kiretse ku w’Imana ugira gatanu gusa) abiduhishurira.

Imisi mirongo ine y’Ikarema.
Guhera ku musi wa 3 w’iminyota, twaratanguye rwa rugendo rw’imisi 40, rudushikana ku kwigina intsinzi ya Pasika. Nk’uko tubizi canke tuvyibuka, iyo misi 40 yibutsa igihe Abanyisraeli bamaze mu bugaragwa (imyaka 40), bagana igihugu Umukama Imana yari yabageneye. Baragendanye rero n’Imana, barabona ingene Imana ibitaho, naho vyaba vyabagoye nyene. Ikindi iyo misi 40 ivuga yisunze imyaka 40 y’urwo rugendo, ni uko abagize urwo rugendo bashitseyo bamaze kubona vyinshi/menshi, baragize experience idasanzwe y’ubuvyeyi bw’Imana. Nico gituma

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,