Calling Us to Penance

First Reading: Is 58:9-14
Psalm: Ps 86:1-6
Gospel: Lk 5:27-32
“I came not call the just,” says Jesus, “but sinners to penance.” There’s more than a little irony in Jesus’ words since, except for himself, his mother, and babies there’s… Read More

The Key to Happiness

First Reading: Is 58:1-9a
Psalm: Ps 51:3-4, 5-6ab, 18-19
Gospel: Mt 9:14-15
God asks us to give things up—to refuse his request is to kill your own soul. To remain selfish when God asks you to go out of yourself… Read More

Choosing Life or Death

First Reading: Dt 30:15-20
Psalm: Ps 1:1-2, 3, 4 and 6
Gospel: Lk 9:22-25
Through Moses, the Lord said to the people: “Today I have set before you life and prosperity,” on one hand, and on the other “death and… Read More

Free From Sin

First Reading: Is 43:18-19, 21-22, 24-25
Psalm: Ps 41:2-5, 13-14
Second Reading: 2 Cor 1:18-22
Gospel: Mk 2:1-12
In today’s Gospel, Jesus hits his audience with a trick question: Which is easier, to say to a paralyzed man: ‘Your sins… Read More

Do We Want What Jesus Wants?

First Reading: Lv 13:1-2, 44-46
Psalm: Ps 32:1-2, 5, 11
Second Reading: 1 Cor 10:31, 11:1
Gospel: Mk 1:40-45
After Jesus heals the leper he tells the leper not to tell anyone about it, but only to go present himself… Read More

Getting to Jesus

First Reading: 1 Kgs 8:1-7, 9-13
Psalm: Ps 132:6-7, 8-10
Gospel: Mk 6:53-56
In today’s Gospel we see a continuation from yesterday of the theme of Jesus the Healer. When Jesus disembarks from the boat everyone waiting on the shore… Read More

The Power to Heal

First Reading: Jb 7:1-4, 6-7
Psalm: Ps 147:1-2, 3-4, 5-6
Second Reading: 1 Cor 9:16-19, 22-23
Gospel: Mk 1:29-39
Throughout today’s passages from the Gospel of Mark we are given a kind of montage of Jesus the Healer. Everyone can… Read More

The Two Kings

First Reading: 1 Sm 24:3-21
Psalm: Ps 57:2, 3-4, 6 and 11
Gospel: Mk 3:13-19
In today’s readings we find two kings. Both of them choose men to be special representatives of the kingdom on an important mission to defeat… Read More

The Paths That Jesus Takes

First Reading: 1 Jn 5:5-13
Psalm: Ps 147:12-13, 14-15, 19-20
Gospel: Mk 1:7-11
Mark chooses to begin his Gospel with the appearance of John the Baptist on the banks of the river Jordan. His entire mission, the point of his… Read More

Be it done unto me according to thy word…

First Reading: 2 Samuel 7:1-5, 8-12, 14, 16
Psalm: Psalm 89:2-5, 27, 29
Second Reading: Romans 16:25-27
Gospel: Luke 1:26-38
Here on this 4th Sunday of Advent we hear the words of Mary: “Be it done unto me according to… Read More

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