Gospel: Mark 6: 1-6
How is it than an extraordinary person like Jesus is rejected by his own home town? Very often people become jealous over another's success; we experience this all the time in our ordinary lives. We might feel happy for them initially, but as their success grows and lasts we become jealous and start to feel resentful of that person. How can some ordinary guy from an insignificant town with no formal education or status do all this?
But that is the entire point of Jesus' life! Any ordinary human being can accomplish great works of love and mercy if they submit themselves to God's will. If we just accept the offer of God's mercy and then extend that mercy out to others in deeds of loving kindness, then we too can accomplish great deeds as Jesus did. We will see people healed and delivered from their personal demons. We will see peace and fellowship among all people at table together.
If we do not see these things happening in our world, if the table of the Lord is a place of division and strife rather than a place of peace, fellowship, and healing, then we have not accepted this mercy and shared it with others. We have kept it for ourselves and buried it in a hole in the ground. Only when we accept God's gift of mercy and multiply it by sharing it with others can great deeds be done and seen, and our ordinary lives become extraordinary.
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