Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time – January 30, 2011 – St. John’s
Our NT readings today are all about contrasts. Writing to the Christian community he had gathered by his preaching a few years earlier, St. Paul describes who they are by contrast to others in Corinth: not many of them were wise, not many powerful, not many of noble birth. But God had chosen the foolish to shame the wise, the weak to shame the strong, the lowly and despised he preferred to those who were something. None of the Corinthian Christians had any reason to boast of anything except in the Lord.
St. Paul was anticipated by Christ himself. (more…)