Ideas for teaching your students about this Sunday’s Gospel, including reflections, sharing
ideas, activities and prayer.
Jan. 31: 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Luke 4:21-30
Jan 25
Lessons for the Sunday Gospel: Jan. 31
Ideas for teaching your students about this Sunday’s Gospel, including reflections, sharing
ideas, activities and prayer.
Jan. 31: 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Luke 4:21-30
Reflecting
When a person gives us a piece of information that is unsettling, our human nature sometimes drives us to be upset with the person who gives us the information. This is what happens in today’s Gospel—which continues the account from last Sunday’s Gospel about Jesus reading from Isaiah in the synagogue.
If you recall, the people who hear Jesus are excited about the good news Jesus brings. But they aren’t sure about Jesus—he’s just the son of Joseph, their local carpenter—and they don’t like all that Jesus proclaims. They don’t like hearing that God’s wondrous goodness and grace will be showered on all people—everybody—no matter who they are. This makes the people in the synagogue of Nazareth angry because they think of themselves as having a claim to God’s promises that no one else has.
As faithful Catholic Christians, we will learn new things about our faith our whole lives. Unlike the people in the synagogue of Nazareth, we want to keep our minds and hearts open to hear all the exciting Good News of Jesus.
Sharing Ideas
How can we learn more about our Catholic faith? (Responses might include: attending religious education classes; praying; reading and studying Scripture; listening carefully to Father’s homily every Sunday; etc.)
Acting
Be very conscientious about doing one of the things in Sharing Ideas and share at the next class one new thing you learned about your faith.
Praying
Living God, your word is always fresh and new. May we never assume we know everything about your Son. Amen.
CATECHIST Magazine, January 2010
Copyright 2010, Peter Li, Inc. This article
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