Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C

Facing rejection

Reading I: Jeremiah 1:4–5, 17–19 (prophet consecrated to God)
Reading II: 1 Corinthians 12:31—13:13 (love never fails)
Gospel: Luke 4:21–30 (beginning of preaching; rejection by the townspeople)

Key Passage: They got up, drove him out of the town, and led him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that they might hurl him off the cliff. But he passed through the midst of them and went on his way. (Luke 4:29–30)

Adult: What do you do when a message you are trying to deliver “falls on deaf ears”?
Child: Are there times when you have not listened as well as you could to what someone was telling you? Why didn’t you?
(from PastoralPlanning.com)