The Gospel of Mercy
Similar to my previous post, I am posting a paper I wrote for Synoptic Gospels class. The paper is on the Gospel of Luke as the "Gospel of Mercy," a fitting theme for this Divine Mercy Sunday. Hopefully it can give you some material for prayer and reflection during this Year of Mercy. Introduction “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, NABRE). When Jesus proclaimed this passage from Isaiah in the Nazorean synagogue, he made it clear that a new “today” has begun, a time in which the Lord’s actions prophesied about in the Old Testament will be fulfilled in him. By beginning Jesus’ public ministry with this passage, St. Luke established a theme for his Gospel: how did Jesus fulfill this message of glad tidings through hi