Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Our passages show us a call to love, the description of love, and the rejection of love in person in Jesus. We are called to examine what love is, to see how it does show up in these passages, and then to "put on love," for in so doing we will be putting on Jesus and living in God who is love
Title
Outline
If you are a typical person, you are like me and tend to be self-centered
Jeremiah was called to act in love
1 Corinthians defines love
Then Jesus runs into the lack of love in Nazareth
Sisters, if we get this we get the core of the life and teaching of Jesus
Readings
FIRST READING
Jeremiah 1:4–5, 17–19
4 The word of the LORD came to me:
5 Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,
before you were born I dedicated you,
a prophet to the nations I appointed you.
17 But you, prepare yourself;
stand up and tell them
all that I command you.
Do not be terrified on account of them,
or I will terrify you before them;
18 For I am the one who today
makes you a fortified city,
A pillar of iron, a wall of bronze,
against the whole land:
Against Judah’s kings and princes,
its priests and the people of the land.
19 They will fight against you, but not prevail over you,
for I am with you to deliver you—oracle of the LORD.
RESPONSE
Psalm 71:15ab
15 My mouth shall proclaim your just deeds,
day after day your acts of deliverance,
though I cannot number them all.
PSALM
Psalm 71:1–6, 15, 17
1 In you, LORD, I take refuge;
let me never be put to shame.
2 In your justice rescue and deliver me;
listen to me and save me!
3 Be my rock of refuge,
my stronghold to give me safety;
for you are my rock and fortress.
4 My God, rescue me from the hand of the wicked,
from the clutches of the evil and violent.
5 You are my hope, Lord;
my trust, GOD, from my youth.
6 On you I have depended since birth;
from my mother’s womb you are my strength;
my hope in you never wavers.
15 My mouth shall proclaim your just deeds,
day after day your acts of deliverance,
though I cannot number them all.
17 God, you have taught me from my youth;
to this day I proclaim your wondrous deeds.
SECOND READING
Option A
1 Corinthians 12:31–13:13
31 Strive eagerly for the greatest spiritual gifts.
But I shall show you a still more excellent way.
CHAPTER 13*
1 If I speak in human and angelic tongues but do not have love, I am a resounding gong or a clashing cymbal. 2 And if I have the gift of prophecy and comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge; if I have all faith so as to move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away everything I own, and if I hand my body over so that I may boast but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, [love] is not pompous, it is not inflated, 5 it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury, 6 it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. 7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never fails. If there are prophecies, they will be brought to nothing; if tongues, they will cease; if knowledge, it will be brought to nothing. 9 For we know partially and we prophesy partially, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 11 When I was a child, I used to talk as a child, think as a child, reason as a child; when I became a man, I put aside childish things. 12 At present we see indistinctly, as in a mirror, but then face to face. At present I know partially; then I shall know fully, as I am fully known. 13 So faith, hope, love remain, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION
Luke 4:18
18 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
because he has anointed me
to bring glad tidings to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives
and recovery of sight to the blind,
to let the oppressed go free,
GOSPEL
Luke 4:21–30
21 He said to them, “Today this scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing.” 22 And all spoke highly of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his mouth. They also asked, “Isn’t this the son of Joseph?” 23 He said to them, “Surely you will quote me this proverb, ‘Physician, cure yourself,’ and say, ‘Do here in your native place the things that we heard were done in Capernaum.’ ” 24 And he said, “Amen, I say to you, no prophet is accepted in his own native place. 25 Indeed, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah when the sky was closed for three and a half years and a severe famine spread over the entire land. 26 It was to none of these that Elijah was sent, but only to a widow in Zarephath in the land of Sidon. 27 Again, there were many lepers in Israel during the time of Elisha the prophet; yet not one of them was cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian.” 28 When the people in the synagogue heard this, they were all filled with fury. 29 They rose up, drove him out of the town, and led him to the brow of the hill on which their town had been built, to hurl him down headlong. 30 But he passed through the midst of them and went away.
Notes
SUNDAY, JANUARY 30, 2022 | ORDINARY TIME
FOURTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
YEAR C | ROMAN MISSAL | LECTIONARY
First Reading Jeremiah 1:4–5, 17–19
Response Psalm 71:15ab
Psalm Psalm 71:1–6, 15, 17
Second Reading 1 Corinthians 12:31–13:13 or 1 Corinthians 13:4–13
Gospel Acclamation Luke 4:18
Gospel Luke 4:21–30