Daily Mass Gospel Reflection - Called, To Holiness

Word on Fire Ministry ^ | 03.13.23 | Bishop Robert Barron

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Third Week of Lent
Luke 4:24-30

Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus’ hometown rejects him as a prophet.
And I want to say a word about your role as a prophet.

When most lay people hear about prophecy,
they sit back and their eyes glaze over.
“That’s something for the priests and the bishops to worry about;
they’re the modern-day prophets.
I don’t have that call or that responsibility.”

Well, think again! Vatican II emphasized the universal call to holiness,
rooted in the dynamics of Baptism.
Every baptized person is conformed unto Christ—priest, prophet, and king.
Whenever you assist at Mass, you are exercising your priestly office,
participating in the worship of God.
Whenever you direct your kids to discover their mission in the Church,
or provide guidance to someone in the spiritual life,
you are exercising your kingly office.

As a baptized individual,
you are also commissioned as a prophet—which is to say,
a speaker of God’s truth.
And the prophetic word is not your own.
It is not the result of your own meditations on the spiritual life,
as valuable and correct as those may be.
The prophetic word is the word of God given to you by God.

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+++Jesus said to the people in the synagogue at Nazareth:
“Amen, I say to you,
no prophet is accepted in his own native place.
Indeed, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel
in the days of Elijah
when the sky was closed for three and a half years
and a severe famine spread over the entire land.
It was to none of these that Elijah was sent,
but only to a widow in Zarephath in the land of Sidon.
Again, there were many lepers in Israel
during the time of Elisha the prophet;
yet not one of them was cleansed,
but only Naaman the Syrian.”
When the people in the synagogue heard this,
they were all filled with fury.
They rose up, drove him out of the town,
and led him to the brow of the hill
on which their town had been built,
to hurl him down headlong.
But he passed through the midst of them and went away.+++

[ebb tide]

And I want to say a word about your role as a prophet.

Once again, Boobie displays his ignorance. The last prophet was St. John.

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Bishop Barron means this:
From the Catechism of the Catholic Church:

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Jesus Christ is the one whom the Father anointed
with the Holy Spirit and established as priest, prophet, and king.
The whole People of God participates in these three offices of Christ
and bears the responsibilities for mission and service that flow from them.

[ebb tide]

That not in the Catholic Catechism that I own.

You must be referring to a post VC II (which Barron references in his reflection) cathecism, which is constantly changing, e.g., capital punishment.

P.S. Do you and Boobie consider yourselves as “kings”??