He was amazed at their lack of faith.
He was amazed at their lack of faith.
14th Sunday in Ordinary Time
July 8, 2018
Mark 6, 1-6
We cannot risk having Jesus go off to another place because we fail to look beyond the signs and wonders and see the work of God in our midst. We cannot fail to ask what these signs and wonders mean. We might actually be one of those signs and wonders. Unlike the people of Nazareth, we can experience the miracle of recreation that comes from suddenly realizing that we are a Child of God as did the Son of Mary, the Carpenter. Allowing that possibility, holding to the hope that God will make something of us, expecting that there is more to us in our church than private devotions, grabbing communion and dashing out the door is exactly the kind of faith Jesus was looking for. The faith missing in Nazareth was not just faith in Jesus Christ, it was also faith in themselves. Those people thought that Nazareth was such a no-place, and that carpenters were so insignificant, that a man who was identified by his mother rather than his father was so powerless and nameless that they could not accept the potential of the Kingdom of God. This cannot be said of us. Place no limit on God’s creative power and place no limit on what that power and faith can do in us and through us when we are one in the Spirit, one in Faith, and one in the Body of Christ.
Fr. Tom Boyer