On this 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, our readings invite us to explore the identity and mission of the Incarnate Son still further by carefully attending to the call of His first Apostles. As Tony explains, when we do, we find that Jesus intends to draw all to saving communion with God beginning at the existential peripheries with those who have been deemed irrelevant by polite society.
Mass Readings:
Reading 1: Isaiah 8:23-9:3
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 27:1, 4, 13-14
Reading 2: 1 Corinthians 1:10-13, 17
Gospel: Matthew 4:12-23
Endnotes:
John 1:3-4
John 8:12
Plato, The Republic, Book VII.
St. Augustine of Hippo, The Trinity, 4.3.
St. Augustine of Hippo, The Trinity, 4.4.
Matthew 5:14
John 14:16
John 10:10
John 17:21-23
Tony Crescio is the founder of FRESHImage Ministries. He holds an MTS from the University of Notre Dame and is currently a PhD candidate in Christian Theology at Saint Louis University. His research focuses on the intersection between moral and sacramental theology. His dissertation is entitled, Presencing the Divine: Augustine, the Eucharist and the Ethics of Exemplarity.
Tony’s academic publications can be found here.