Scripture: James 1:19-27Mark 8:22-26 Reflection: When Jesus and his disciples arrived at Bethsaida, people brought to him a blind man and begged Jesus to touch him. He took the blind man by the hand and led him outside the village.…
Scripture: James 1:12-18Mark 8:14-21 Reflection: Why do you conclude that it is because you have not bread? Do you not yet understand or comprehend? Oh, when my kids were teenagers – how many times did I hear… we have nothing…
Scripture: James 1:1-11Mark 8:11-13 Reflection: No human being is a stranger to suffering because suffering comes to all of us. The question, then, is not whether we will suffer, but how will we respond to it? This is one way…
Scripture: Jeremiah 17:5-81 Corinthians 15:12, 16-20Luke 6:17, 20-26 Reflection How do we find life? How do we keep from dying inside? And can we really be people of hope? These are questions that unfold deep inside us, questions we wrestle…
Scripture: 1 Kings 12:26-32; 13:33-34Mark 8:1-10 Reflection: Jesus tested his disciples. For three days, the crowd of 4,000 had followed him, listening to his teaching. But now they were in the wilderness and hungry. So what was Jesus to do? …
Scripture: 1 Kings 11:29-32; 12:19Mark 7:31-37 Reflection: Two Views of Prophets With the final words of our first reading, “Israel went into rebellion against David’s house to this day”, we hear the end of the united kingdom made by David…
Scripture: 1 Kings 11:4-13Mark 7:24-30 Reflection: Have you ever said to yourself: “Yeah, but if people REALLY knew who I am, they wouldn’t like me so much”? I know I have, and so have many of my friends and people…
Scripture: 1 Kings 10:1-10Mark 7:14-23 Reflection: If Solomon Could Have Listened to the Words of Jesus We may need the ‘wisdom of Solomon’ to turn today’s readings into prayer! It is said, ‘the brighter the light the greater the shadow’.…
Scripture: 1 Kings 8:22-23, 27-30Mark 7:1-13 Reflection: Some of us remember many years ago, when Catholics were called to observe meatless Friday every week. Schools, public and Catholic, would serve grilled cheese sandwiches. The main dinner course at home was…
Scripture: 1 Kings 8:1-7, 9-13Mark 6:53-56 Reflection: They scurried about the surrounding country and began to bring in the sick on matsto wherever they heard he was.Whatever villages or towns or countryside he entered,they laid the sick in the marketplacesand begged…