The Fourth Sunday of the Year
Zeph 2:3 & 3:12-13; 1 Cor 1:26-31; Mt 5:1-12 (year a)
‘Seek the Lord all you, the humble of the earth, who obey his commands. Seek integrity, seek humility. In your midst I will leave a humble and lowly people, and those who are left in Israel will seek refuge in the name of the Lord.”
The prophet Zephaniah was writing at a time when Israel was struggling to recover from the bitter humiliation of defeat and exile. Like the surrounding nations, they had entrusted themselves to the ambition of power and influence, forgetting the call to trust in God. The poverty of such arrogance had become their daily bread.
