Monday, Lent Wk 3: "no prophet is accepted in his own native place"

When the people in the synagogue heard this,
they were all filled with fury.

-- Lk 4:24-30

In time we can discover that God in his almighty providence can bring a good from the consequences of an evil, even a moral evil, caused by his creatures: "It was not you", said Joseph to his brothers, "who sent me here, but God. . . You meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive." From the greatest moral evil ever committed - the rejection and murder of God's only Son, caused by the sins of all men - God, by his grace that "abounded all the more", brought the greatest of goods: the glorification of Christ and our redemption. But for all that, evil never becomes a good.

-- CCC 312

Saint John of God, pray for us.