DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage
Dear Friend in the Lord,
“Rejection – Familiarity” – Faith: In today’s Gospel, Jesus was saddened by His town folks’ prejudice and rejection of Him as the Messiah. To them, the Messiah cannot come from such humble social status. Moreover, they know Him and His family. Ponder on, “Have we lost precious opportunities to knowing, loving and serving God, because of our prejudices about Him?”
Fr Philip Heng, S.J.
Matthew 13:54-58
Coming to his home town, Jesus taught the people in their synagogue in such a way that they were astonished and said, ‘Where did the man get this wisdom and these miraculous powers? This is the carpenter’s son, surely? Is not his mother the woman called Mary, and his brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Jude? His sisters, too, are they not all here with us? So where did the man get it all?’
And they would not accept him. But Jesus said to them, ‘A prophet is despised only in his own country and in his own house,’ and he did not work many miracles there because of their lack of faith.