3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, January 23, 2022
/What is Jesus' mission statement? What is yours?
Gospel: Luke 1:4; 4:14–21
[Jesus] came to Nazareth, where he had grown up, and went according to his custom into the synagogue on the sabbath day. He stood up to read and was handed a scroll of the prophet Isaiah. He unrolled the scroll and found the passage where it was written: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me.”
How does the politics of Jesus compare with your own? Good news to the poor, release to the captive, sight to the blind, letting the oppressed go free, declaring God’s favor. If that’s the politics of Jesus and we claim to be disciples, followers, lovers of Jesus, doesn’t it need to be our politics?
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