Fr. Jorge Miró shares with the readers of Exaudi his commentary on the Gospel of this Sunday, January 26, 2025, entitled “Today this Scripture is fulfilled.”
The Word of God is the center of today’s liturgy: Your words, Lord, are spirit and life, we have sung in the Psalm. Today we celebrate the Sunday of the Word of God, established to celebrate and welcome ever better the gift that God has given us and gives every day of his Word to his People (Francis, 1-26-2020).
The liturgy invites us to listen with joy to the Word of God. The word that shows us the path of salvation.
God speaks to us through His Word, the Word of life, love, and salvation. We receive the Word in the Church. To confidently accept the Word of God and to live in the Church are two basic pillars in the life of a Christian: no one can have God as a father if he does not have the Church as his mother (Saint Cyprian).
The readings present three characters. First, Ezra calls the community to listen to the Word of God and celebrate. This Word, heard with an attentive ear and accepted with a humble heart, bears fruit: it brings forth tears of authentic conversion—sorrowful tears that do not lead to despair but to the grateful joy of experiencing the free salvation that God gives us.
Then, Paul shows us how the Word brings us together as the people of God, and explains to us that Christ, and we form one body.
Jesus calls you to live the faith in the Church. We have not been created for solitude, but for relationship, communion and giving.
In the Church, we all have a commitment and a task. And, today, the Word of God invites you to become aware of your role in the Church: you are important, because you are the Church. All the charisms, all the gifts that the Spirit has given you, are necessary.
They are not necessary for showing off and ending up stealing glory from God. They are necessary for the mission that the Lord entrusts to you. Not the one that you plan, but the one that the Lord entrusts to you.
The comparison of the Church with the body illuminates the intimate relationship between the Church and Christ. She is not only gathered around Him: she is always unified in Him, in His Body.
Believers who respond to the Word of God and become members of the Body of Christ are closely united to Christ.
But the unity of the body has not abolished the diversity of the members: In the construction of the Body of Christ, there is a diversity of members and functions. It is the same Spirit who, according to his wealth and the needs of the ministries, distributes his various gifts for the good of the Church (cf. Catechism 789-791).
The Church prolongs the presence of the risen Lord in history, especially through the sacraments, the Word of God, the charisms and ministries distributed in the community. For this reason, precisely in Christ and in the Spirit, the Church is one and holy, that is, an intimate communion that transcends human capacities and sustains them (cf. Benedict XVI, Angelus, 24-I-2010).
Finally, Jesus, in the synagogue of Nazareth, begins his preaching by announcing to his countrymen that in him the ancient prophecies about the expected Messiah are fulfilled.
He, anointed by the Holy Spirit, has been sent to evangelize the poor, to proclaim freedom to the captives and sight to the blind; to set the oppressed free; to proclaim the year of favor of the Lord.
This scene is like the program of what the ministry of Jesus is going to be. It also announces the future path of the Church.
Today, proclaimed by Christ on that day, is valid for all times and announces to us that Jesus Christ is the Lord, the Savior, and that his word has power: Jesus returned to Galilee, with the strength of the Spirit. It is an effective word that is fulfilled in the heart of those who accept it.
If you hear the voice of the Lord today, do not let your heart harden. If you believe, you will see the glory of God!
Courage! Accept the challenge! God wants you to be united with love to the Church, God wants you to work in her, with her and for her. God wants you to be a living Christian, docile to the Spirit. Do you dare?
Come, Holy Spirit!
Today this Scripture is fulfilled: Commentary by Fr. Jorge Miró
Sunday, January 26, 2025
Fr. Jorge Miró shares with the readers of Exaudi his commentary on the Gospel of this Sunday, January 26, 2025, entitled “Today this Scripture is fulfilled.”
The Word of God is the center of today’s liturgy: Your words, Lord, are spirit and life, we have sung in the Psalm. Today we celebrate the Sunday of the Word of God, established to celebrate and welcome ever better the gift that God has given us and gives every day of his Word to his People (Francis, 1-26-2020).
The liturgy invites us to listen with joy to the Word of God. The word that shows us the path of salvation.
God speaks to us through His Word, the Word of life, love, and salvation. We receive the Word in the Church. To confidently accept the Word of God and to live in the Church are two basic pillars in the life of a Christian: no one can have God as a father if he does not have the Church as his mother (Saint Cyprian).
The readings present three characters. First, Ezra calls the community to listen to the Word of God and celebrate. This Word, heard with an attentive ear and accepted with a humble heart, bears fruit: it brings forth tears of authentic conversion—sorrowful tears that do not lead to despair but to the grateful joy of experiencing the free salvation that God gives us.
Then, Paul shows us how the Word brings us together as the people of God, and explains to us that Christ, and we form one body.
Jesus calls you to live the faith in the Church. We have not been created for solitude, but for relationship, communion and giving.
In the Church, we all have a commitment and a task. And, today, the Word of God invites you to become aware of your role in the Church: you are important, because you are the Church. All the charisms, all the gifts that the Spirit has given you, are necessary.
They are not necessary for showing off and ending up stealing glory from God. They are necessary for the mission that the Lord entrusts to you. Not the one that you plan, but the one that the Lord entrusts to you.
The comparison of the Church with the body illuminates the intimate relationship between the Church and Christ. She is not only gathered around Him: she is always unified in Him, in His Body.
Believers who respond to the Word of God and become members of the Body of Christ are closely united to Christ.
But the unity of the body has not abolished the diversity of the members: In the construction of the Body of Christ, there is a diversity of members and functions. It is the same Spirit who, according to his wealth and the needs of the ministries, distributes his various gifts for the good of the Church (cf. Catechism 789-791).
The Church prolongs the presence of the risen Lord in history, especially through the sacraments, the Word of God, the charisms and ministries distributed in the community. For this reason, precisely in Christ and in the Spirit, the Church is one and holy, that is, an intimate communion that transcends human capacities and sustains them (cf. Benedict XVI, Angelus, 24-I-2010).
Finally, Jesus, in the synagogue of Nazareth, begins his preaching by announcing to his countrymen that in him the ancient prophecies about the expected Messiah are fulfilled.
He, anointed by the Holy Spirit, has been sent to evangelize the poor, to proclaim freedom to the captives and sight to the blind; to set the oppressed free; to proclaim the year of favor of the Lord.
This scene is like the program of what the ministry of Jesus is going to be. It also announces the future path of the Church.
Today, proclaimed by Christ on that day, is valid for all times and announces to us that Jesus Christ is the Lord, the Savior, and that his word has power: Jesus returned to Galilee, with the strength of the Spirit. It is an effective word that is fulfilled in the heart of those who accept it.
If you hear the voice of the Lord today, do not let your heart harden. If you believe, you will see the glory of God!
Courage! Accept the challenge! God wants you to be united with love to the Church, God wants you to work in her, with her and for her. God wants you to be a living Christian, docile to the Spirit. Do you dare?
Come, Holy Spirit!
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