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Friends,
today’s Gospel develops a theme that is uncomfortable. It tells how the
people of Nazareth rejected Jesus. Authentically religious people,
authentically spiritual people, will almost always be opposed. The logic
behind this is simple and unanswerable: we live in a world gone wrong, a
world turned upside down; therefore, when someone comes speaking the
truth to us, we will think that they are crazy and dangerous.
Think
for just a moment what would happen to you if you consistently and
publicly spoke the word of God to our culture. If you spoke out against
abortion, euthanasia, assisted suicide, human trafficking, rampant
materialism, and ideological secularism, what would happen to you? If
you presented, in a full-throated way, the full range of Catholic social
and moral and spiritual teaching, what would they do to you? Today’s
Gospel offers a clue.
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