DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage
Dear Friend in the Lord,
Jesus’ Disappointment: In today’s Gospel, Jesus was deeply disappointed with His townspeople and said to them, “No prophet is ever accepted in his own country.” Ponder on, “In your love for God, have you experienced ‘rejection’ from the people who are close to you? If so, do not be discouraged; remain focused on loving God.”
Fr Philip Heng, S.J.
Luke 4:23b-28
The people of Nazara said to Jesus, “We have heard all that happened in Capernaum, do the same here in your own countryside.” ’ And Jesus 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.