Reflect: In the Gospel of next Sunday, Jesus is rejected by his own people. Jesus’ very ordinariness made it difficult for the people of Nazareth to see him as he really was, in all his mystery. God was powerfully present, in and through someone who was as ordinary, in many respects, as they themselves. God continues to come to us today in and through the ordinary, in and through those who are most familiar to us. In most cases the primary way the Lord comes to us is in and through the everyday. This is what we mean by the Incarnation. The Word became flesh and dwelt among us.
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