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their job to proclaim God’s message and to bring people who have strayed back to God. Prophets are God’s PR people. Unfortunately, for most of the prophets, the people who were on the receiving end of God’s messages did not appreciate what God had to say. Of course, God did not make it easy for the prophets; he sent them to people who were “hard of face and obstinate of heart” (Ezekiel 2:4).
Not only were the people obstinate, they were the family, neighbors, friends, and community members of the prophets. They knew the prophets as ordinary people who did ordinary things. Therefore, the people were not inclined to take Ezekiel, Paul, or Jesus very seriously. Publilius Syrus, a writer in the 1st century BC, coined a phrase “familiarity breeds contempt.” And contempt is exactly what the prophets experienced among their own people. In today’s gospel from Mark 6:1-6, Jesus observed, “A prophet is not without honor except in his native place and among his own kin and in his own house.”
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Not only were the people obstinate, they were the family, neighbors, friends, and community members of the prophets. They knew the prophets as ordinary people who did ordinary things. Therefore, the people were not inclined to take Ezekiel, Paul, or Jesus very seriously. Publilius Syrus, a writer in the 1st century BC, coined a phrase “familiarity breeds contempt.” And contempt is exactly what the prophets experienced among their own people. In today’s gospel from Mark 6:1-
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In our readings today, we hear three prophetic voices: Ezekiel, Paul, and Jesus. Prophets have an enormous responsibility. It is
In our readings today, we hear three prophetic voices: Ezekiel, Paul, and Jesus. Prophets have an enormous responsibility. It is
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