"Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, heartfelt compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience," (Col 3:12)

Lk 4: 24-30

Jesus said to the people in the synagogue at Nazareth: “Amen, I say to you, no prophet is accepted in his own native place. 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. It was to none of these that Elijah was sent, but only to a widow in Zarephath in the land of Sidon. 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. ”When the people in the synagogue heard this, they were all filled with fury. 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. But he passed through the midst of them and went away.

Faith is based on simplicity, the simplest things determine the quality of our spiritual life. In the first reading, Naaman thought that the prophet would heal him in some spectacular way, but he didn't even come out to him. Maybe we are outraged at God for not giving us some spectacular means of spiritual healing or conversion, but is what we have really not enough for us? The greatness of God and His power is revealed in small, simple things that, when done with faith and love, can bring enormous graces and perform miracles in our lives. But this requires precisely our faith, the right way of looking at Jesus, not the way the inhabitants of His city had it. For them, Jesus was someone ordinary, and the point is to find someone extraordinary in this simple Jesus. Faith without admiration for God will never spread its wings and lift us to heaven but will only lead to doubt and frustration. Let us never stop discovering and delighting in God in the simplest things in our faith. Father Marcin Cwierz, OSPPE

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"Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, heartfelt compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience," (Col 3:12)