Go ahead and preach anyhow!

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For 16 March 2009, Monday of 3rd week of Lent, based on Luke 4:24-30

Jesus said, “Truly I tell you, no prophet is accepted in the prophet’s hometown. But the truth is, there were many widows in Israel in the time of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, and there was a severe famine over all the land; yet Elijah was sent to none of them except to a widow at Zarephath in Sidon. There were also many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian.” When they heard this, all in the synagogue were filled with rage. They got up, drove him out of the town, and led him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that they might hurl him off the cliff. But he passed through the midst of them and went on his way.


Scripture passage from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright 1989, 1993, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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About Brian Guadalupe Walker, O.P.

Brian Guadalupe Walker, O.P. is a member of the province of St. Albert the Great assigned to inner city Chicago, and is currently an itinerant preacher doing parish missions and retreats both in English and in Spanish wherever the preaching calls him. Visit his web site at www.OPFriar.com.