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So we're looking today at a part of the Bible that is read a lot at mass. This particular section,

you'll hear at various times throughout the liturgical cycle and particularly a lot in year C.

So we're looking at Luke chapter 4 verses 21 to 30.

Jesus began to speak in the synagogue.

This text is being fulfilled today even as you listen and he he won the approval of all, and they were

astonished by the gracious words that came from his lips. They said, this is Joseph's son,

surely. But he replied, no doubt you will quote me the saying, physician, heal yourself.

And tell me, we have heard all that happened in Copernum,

do the same here in your own countryside. And he went on, I tell you solemnly, no prophet is ever

accepted in his own country. There were many widows in Israel, I can assure you, in Elijah's day, when heaven remained shut

for three years and six months, and a great famine raged throughout the land.

But Elijah was not sent to any one of these.

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