July 31 - Friday of the 17th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Jer.26:1-9; Ps.69:5,8-10,14; Mt.13:54-58) “No prophet is without honor, except in his native place, indeed in his own house.” How consonant are our readings today, speaking all of the persecution the prophet of God must bear in bringing the truth to His people. (Indeed I had thought to refer to the incident in our gospel before having even come to it, while still reading the words from Jeremiah, for elsewhere in the gospels the same quote of Jesus written above causes His people to lead Him to the brow of a hill, intending to throw Him down.) As Jesus was rejected when He “went to His native…
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