Monday of week 3 in Ordinary Time

When I was in theology one of my professors of New Testament said that the most remarkable thing about Jesus for the people of his time and place was that he was not remarkable or even noticeable at all. I thought this rather puzzling but the professor went on to say that we view Christ through the Gospels, through the Church and her traditions, and through art, yet, at the time of Jesus people who could REALLY see Christ were those who could see him through faith. For the majority, however, Christ was simply an ordinary person.
In today’s Gospel we hear of a group, the scribes, who like many do not recognize who Jesus is. They accuse him of using the power of Satan, the very power of evil, to expel demons. We know that even today we do sometimes not recognize Christ in the poor, the oppressed, the unborn, in those different from us and in those the same as us. We need to accept the Holy Spirit to enliven our faith, to see with Gospel eyes rather than ordinary eyes, to find Christ in the world today and recognized good even though it be surrounded and threatened by evil.