January 26 - Sunday of the 3rd Week in Ordinary Time, Year C
(Neh.8:2-4a,5-6,8-10; Ps.19:8-10,15; 1Cor.12:12-30; Lk.1:1-4,4:14-21) "He opened the scroll so that all the people might see it." These words are spoken of Ezra the scribe who "brought the law before the assembly" of all Israel as he stood above them preparing to read the word of God, but it surely more distinctly refers to Jesus the Christ, the Incarnate Word of God, who reveals Himself to the souls in the Nazareth synagogue today. As "Ezra read plainly from the book of the law of God, interpreting it so that all might understand," so the Word is perfectly read and interpreted for us in the…
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