To read the texts click on the texts: Joel 4:12-21; Lk 11:27-28
The words, “While he was saying this” connect what follows to
what has gone on before. Jesus has just challenged his listeners to fill their
lives with the kingdom of God, and now a woman in the crowd blesses the mother
of Jesus, because of the beauty she sees in Jesus. While Jesus does not deny
that his mother is indeed blessed, he uses this opportunity to extend the
blessing to anyone who like his mother will hear the Word of God and put it
into practice in their lives.
If the woman in the crowd was able to bless the womb that bore
Jesus, it was because she could see and experience the goodness in Jesus. This
goodness was manifested not only in what he said but in what he did and was
therefore visible in his person. If we like Jesus hear the word of God and act
on it, then others will pronounce the same blessing on us.
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