Year B - Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B

Deuteronomy 18, 15-20

Psalm 94

1 Corinthians 7, 32-35

Mark 1, 21-28

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Details

- This rabbit on the stage is a prophet. He speaks in the name of God, he "climbs on high", he proclaims (with all his might because we can see his tongue really extended). 
Curiously enough, there is no microphone but his words are reflected  in the speakers (which signifies that God helps to amplify the small part of the action that he has asked us to accomplish).

- Beneath, there is a priest who is with his Bible, to announce the Good News but without success, visibly.

- He who speaks to the priest reproaches to him the fact that he cannot hear him. We need to meet three criteria in order to be audible:

         1. To make oneself heard (if I speak very softly, I take the risk of not being heard)

         2. To make oneself understood (I adapt the message. I do not adapt the content of the message, but the manner of saying it, the vocabulary...)

         3. Live, myself, that which I say.

Questions

- What do I reproach to priests in the manner of conducting themselves? What do I expect of them?

- And I, how can I give a speech of life? With whom am I most at ease to speak with? Maybe it is in this place that God will call me?

- In the apostolic letter to the devoted Pope Francis said "The prophet receives from God the capacity to scrutinize the history in which he lives, and to interpret events: he is like a sentinel who watches during the night and knows when dawn comes (cf. Is 21: 11-12).  He knows God and he knows men and women, his brothers and sisters.  He is capable of discernment and also capable of denouncing the evil of sin and of injustices, because he is free; He answers to no master but God, he has no other interest but those of God.  The prophet is usually on the side of the poor and of those without recourse, because God himself is on their side"

- In what way does this speak to me? How ?