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    Year 32 No.44 ST PAULS MEDIA LIVE DAILY TV MASS ONLINE ¢ 6:00AM. ere eer 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time (C) — Green pastoral ministr SUNDAY © TVMARIA © 8:30AM © 7:00PM Cin iecel ones) February 3, 2019 Under the “Banner of Love aan @ child.” Jeremiah was a young man who felt inadequate for the mission that God was asking him to accomplish. He had to rouse Judah and nearby nations from complacency, and speak to them of the impending destruction about to befall on their inhabitants because they had polluted the land with filth and sinfulness. God reached out and touched Jeremiah’s mouth as a symbolic way of consecration and empowerment. God confirmed the choice he had made when Jeremiah was yet a fetus in his mother’s womb. God's help would thus be forthcoming, and the youth should not rely only on his natural abilities but on the spiritual gifts that God would provide in his ministry. The ruling class of Judah would ‘oppose and reject Jeremiah but he need not fear because God had promised to make him “a fortified city, a pillar of iron, a wall of brass, against the whole land.” Jesus on his part was relatively young when he began his ministry at the age of thirty and he also suffered rejection from the people in the synagogue at Nazareth, his home town. He unrolled the scroll, read from Isaiah 61:1-4, and made the bold claim that this prophecy is fulfilled in his person: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor” The admiration of his townmates was suddenly eclipsed by doubts simply because he was familiar to them. Seeing their hesitation to acknowledge him as Messiah, Jesus cited two Old Testament prophets who were rejected by their fellow Hebrews but successfully ministered to pagans: Elijah who fed a widow in Zarepath in the land of Sidon during the time of famine and Elisha who was instrumental in the cleansing and complete healing from leprosy of the pagan army commander Naaman. The people in the synagogue rose in fury and wanted to lynch Jesus but he escaped. Both the prophet Jeremiah and our Lord Jesus did not deserve the violent stance taken against them by their compatriots. Jeremiah and Jesus simply obeyed the will of the heavenly Father. They trusted in God's words and accomplished their respective missions with the guidance and protection of God himself. They were also guided by the banner of love that Saint Paul described as the most excellent among all spiritual gifts. Today many young people acknowledge their hunger for God and their thirst for holiness. A great number of youth has employed the social media as a platform to spread devotions and teachings about our Catholic Faith. There are others who defend the Faith against modern-day heresies and false teachings. Our celebration of the Year of the Youth can truly be a springtime for young people engaged in evangelization. Saint Paul's ode to love in our Second Reading is an apt and fitting reminder on how we can and must conduct our ministries and apostolates. — Fr, Paul J. Marquez, SSP iy & Pastoral Catechesis for the

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