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May we Praise Your Name, O Lord
In today's gospel, Christ returned to his native town,
Nazareth. But instead of a warm welcome, he was rejected by his town mates.
The gospel episode brings to mind the famous story about the attitude of crabs. One day a man went crabbing.
And every time he caught a crab, he would place it in a basket, without any cover. A passerby seeing how the
crabs were trying to crawl out of the basket, remarked: "Friend, put a cover on your basket, otherwise the crabs
will climb out and go back into the sea." Without ever turning his head, the man shot back: "don't worry, partner.
Those crabs in the basket can never leave because every time someone wants to climb up, all the others pull him down.
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