3rd Sunday - C, Sunday of the Word of God (January 23, 2022)

 

Today, in Nazareth

Luke 1: 1-4, 4: 14-21

 

Nazareth was not much of a place.  Even the people of Nazareth did not think much of it.  While they were “amazed” at Jesus’ preaching, they did not think he got it because he is one of them (Luke 4:22).  Other people did not think much of Nazareth either.  Nathanael expressed it when he said, “Can anything good come from Nazareth?” (John 1:46)

 

Yet, in the way of God, it was in Nazareth,

 

It was “today,”

 

Jesus proclaims, “This Scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing.”

 

So it is for us. 

 

Wherever our Nazareth is, today, God’s Good News of salvation is fulfilled for us and in us.