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GOSPEL POWER - NOVEMBER 19, 2020
GOSPEL POWER - NOVEMBER 19, 2020 THURSDAY - 33rd Week in Ordinary Time
Gospel: Lk 19:41-44 41
As Jesus came near and saw the city, he wept over it, saying, “If you, even you, had only recognized on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. Indeed, the days will come upon you, when your enemies will set up ramparts around you and surround you, and hem you in on every side. They will crush you to the ground, you and your children within you, and they will not leave within you one stone upon another; because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.”
Reflection:
In any generation, the failure to recognize God’s visitation is not only a lost opportunity, but a real tragedy. At the beginning of Luke’s Gospel, particularly in the song of Zechariah, Jesus is identified as “the daybreak from on high…who will guide our feet into the way of peace” (1:78-79). The way of Jesus is the way of active nonviolence. His Messianic strategy is not conquest by the sword but service and sacrifice, as embodied by the Suffering Servant of Yahweh in the Isaiah prophecies. Israel, who was expecting a Messiah who would lead them to victory against their foreign enemies, rejected both Jesus and his way of peace. They took up arms against Rome in 70 AD, thereby bringing about what Luke portrays in today’s Gospel as a prophetic vision of Jesus as he enters Jerusalem to fulfill what has been written about him in the Scriptures.
Prayer: Lord Jesus, help our generation to recognize the illusion that peace can be achieved by our own efforts and through weapons of violence. Amen.
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GOSPEL POWER - NOVEMBER 19, 2020 THURSDAY - 33rd Week in Ordinary Time
Gospel: Lk 19:41-44 41
As Jesus came near and saw the city, he wept over it, saying, “If you, even you, had only recognized on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. Indeed, the days will come upon you, when your enemies will set up ramparts around you and surround you, and hem you in on every side. They will crush you to the ground, you and your children within you, and they will not leave within you one stone upon another; because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.”
Reflection:
In any generation, the failure to recognize God’s visitation is not only a lost opportunity, but a real tragedy. At the beginning of Luke’s Gospel, particularly in the song of Zechariah, Jesus is identified as “the daybreak from on high…who will guide our feet into the way of peace” (1:78-79). The way of Jesus is the way of active nonviolence. His Messianic strategy is not conquest by the sword but service and sacrifice, as embodied by the Suffering Servant of Yahweh in the Isaiah prophecies. Israel, who was expecting a Messiah who would lead them to victory against their foreign enemies, rejected both Jesus and his way of peace. They took up arms against Rome in 70 AD, thereby bringing about what Luke portrays in today’s Gospel as a prophetic vision of Jesus as he enters Jerusalem to fulfill what has been written about him in the Scriptures.
Prayer: Lord Jesus, help our generation to recognize the illusion that peace can be achieved by our own efforts and through weapons of violence. Amen.