Today's liturgy highlights Jesus as the new prophet with authority. His word heals and delivers. We must listen to this word!
In the first reading, Moses invites his people to listen to the word of God through his prophet. Whoever listens to the Lord's messenger will be heard.
The prophet is therefore the one who announces the Lord and speaks only in his favor. We must turn our hearts to the Word of God. We must have a listening and not a divided or rocky heart. “Today let us not close our heart. But let us listen to the word of the Lord!”
The liturgy invites us to have an open heart, sincere and to be faithful to the Lord. We must have the heart of a prophet, one who listens to the cries, the pain, the suffering, the problems of the men and women of our time. Is my heart divided, rocky, or a listening heart?
In the gospel, Jesus is indeed the “new prophet” who speaks and acts with extra-ordinary authority. He has power over His adversary, the Evil One who seeks to possess our lives and all of God's creation.
At each Eucharist, Jesus exorcises the demon as well as the evil that is in us and in the world! Jesus had come to free us from hatred, fear, selfishness, witchcraft, Satanism, etc...
Indeed, listening to the voice of God as well as the announcement of his Word is our first weapon of liberation from evil and satanic forces.
Let us become, through our words and actions, prophets of our time!
Happy Sunday!
Father Georges sac