Lectio Divina: For the 14th Week of Ordinary Time

Please read slowly and reflectively.

Slowly count to five at the end of each line.

A READING FROM THE GOSPEL OF JESUS ACCORDING TO MARK (FIRST READER ONLY)

WHEN THE SABBATH CAME, JESUS BEGAN TO TEACH IN THE SYNAGOGUE/

MANY WHO HEARD HIM WERE ASTONISHED./

THEY SAID, “WHERE DID THIS MAN GET ALL THIS?/

WHAT KIND OF WISDOM HAS BEEN GIVEN HIM?/

WHAT MARVELOUS DEEDS ARE PERFORMED BY HIS HANDS?/

IS HE NOT THE CARPENTER, THE SON OF MARY?/

ARE NOT HIS RELATIVES HERE WITH US?”/

AND THEY TOOK OFFENSE AT HIM./

HE SAID TO THEM, “A PROPHET IS NOT WITHOUT HONOR/

EXCEPT IN HIS NATIVE PLACE/

AMONG HIS OWN PEOPLE/

AND IN HIS OWN HOUSE.”/

CONSEQUENTLY, HE WAS NOT ABLE TO PERFORM ANY MIGHTY DEEDS THERE./

HE WAS AMAZED AT THEIR LACK OF FAITH./