In the second reading we hear St. Paul say to the Corinthians, if I proclaim the Gospel, this gives me no ground for boasting, for an obligation is laid on me, and woe to me if I do not proclaim the Gospel!
“I will raise up for them a Prophet like you from among their own kin; I will put my words in [their] mouth”
As I had grown up in the 70’s and 80’s, when someone was described as “a prophet,” I usually pictured a cartoon-like hippie with a robe and long beard carrying a sign stating, “The end is near!” Prophets had ...
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wouldn’t we all want to know the future if everything in the future were going to be okay! The psalmist sings, “Lord, make me know your ways.” It’s a little like asking, ‘Let me know the future.’ Maybe … but not if it’s bad news. Good news is what Jesus is speaking when he arrives in Galilee. ...
“Oh, those shoes are calling my name.”
These two statements made to Mary by the angel Gabriel are, for me, two of the most powerful lines in all of Scripture.
