Daily reflection _ The Good News He announced

THE GOOD NEWS HE ANNOUNCED
We are called to carry that same freedom and Good News to the world through our lives of faith and through our words and deeds. This is how closely linked the love of God and the love of neighbor are.  
Deacon John Ruscheinsky
In today's Gospel we hear, "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because He has anointed me to bring glad tidings to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, and to proclaim a year acceptable to the Lord" (Lk 4:18 - 19). Jesus declares the year of the Lord's favor!
The crowd gathered in the synagogue to hear Jesus preach and they recognized the Good News He announced. It's about glad tidings, freedom, and healing to all in need. When Jesus speaks to them He does not announce this Good News for one particular calendar year. The Good News is present and fulfilled in Him at all times and in all places. We are called to carry that same freedom and Good News to the world through our lives of faith and through our words and deeds. This is how closely linked the love of God and the love of neighbor are. In the first Letter of St. John we are reminded that God's love is not merely professed by us, God's love is lived out through us, with others.
In the Responsorial Psalm we proclaim a prayer about justice. It was Israel's prayer for its king - a prayer for right judgment and for the defense of the oppressed. It is a good prayer for our country's government and for the governments of all countries; prayer for justice, equity, and liberation. To pray for just structures; for social awareness; for human concern between all peoples. As human beings and members of society, we pray that the current of feelings that runs through our bodies will bring us into understanding and action to the needs of reform. May it lead to the uprooting of inequality and establish true peace and justice in a world that is broken by the wrong decisions we have made.
Through our knowledge and experience of true freedom and the grace of God, we are free to show that same love of God by our witness of love for one another. May what we do during Mass be reflected in our lives. Since we address each other as brother and sister in the Liturgy, let us also treat each other as family outside of the Mass!
God wants our love to overflow into love for all His children!