3rd SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
‘He sent me to bring the Good News
to the poor’
We always pay special attention to the inaugural
address of a leader outlining, as it usually does,
the vision of the new regime. Today we listen
with special attention as Jesus delivers his first
sermon in the synagogue in Capernaum. It is
His ‘mission statement’ and His mission will be
different. He will have a special concern and care
for the last, the least and the lost. During His
public ministry, by day, by night, at waters’ edge,
on mountaintop, at town pool, at village well He
will put flesh on the words of that first sermon.
The new wine of Cana will flow through every
gesture and encounter. He will touch the
untouchable. He will invite the outsider in. He
will welcome the sinner home. He will in short,
proclaim the equal dignity of all God’s children.
G.K. Chesterton, poet, writer and convert to
Catholicism, proposed a simple, everyday image
to explain the heart of Jesus’ mission: ‘People are
equal in the same way that pennies are equal.
Some are bright; others are dull; some are worn
smooth; others are sharp and fresh. But all are
equal in value, because each penny bears the
image of the sovereign, each person bears the
image of the King of Kings’.
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