6 February 2019. The Martyrs of Japan in the 1590s and of Zimbabwe
in the 1970s
‘WHERE DID HE GET ALL THIS?’ (Mark 6:1-6)
The people of Nazareth were outraged when they heard Jesus
speaking a wisdom way ahead of anything they knew. They were not open to the message because
they were jealous that one of theirs should have gone so far ahead of
them. He stood out. But he only did so to invite them to change
their ways and reach beyond the contented way of life they were used to. Martyrs of all times – and today we remember martyrs
in Japan and Zimbabwe – step outside the accepted ways of their contemporaries
and make a stand. Jesus’ contemporaries, people who thought they knew him,
wondered, ‘where did he get all this?’ A good question! Where do we get the courage to be different?
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