SUNDAY OF THE WORD OF GOD - 23 January 2022 - HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS
https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/homilies/2022/documents/20220123_omelia-domenicadellaparoladi -dio.html SUNDAY OF THE WORD OF GOD - 23 January 2022 HOLY MASS HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS St. Peter’s Basilica Third Sunday of Ordinary Time, In the first reading and in the Gospel, we find two parallel acts. Ezra the priest lifts up the book of the law of God, opens it and reads it aloud before the people. Jesus, in the synagogue of Nazareth, opens the scroll of the Sacred Scripture and reads a passage of the prophet Isaiah in the presence of all. Both scenes speak to us of a fundamental reality: at the heart of the life of God’s holy people and our journey of faith are not ourselves and our own words. At its heart is God and his word. Everything started with the word that God spoke to us. In Christ, his eternal Word, the Father “chose us before the foundation of the world” (Eph 1:4). By that Word, he created the universe: “he spoke, and it came to be” (Ps 33:9). From
