Scripture: Nehemiah 8:2-4a, 5-6, 8-10 1 Corinthians 12:12-30Luke 1:1-4; 4:14-21 Reflection: In our first reading from Nehemiah, the people of Israel have returned from exile, and Ezra the priest assembles the people together and reads God’s Law to them. The…
Scripture: 2 Samuel 1:1-4, 11-12, 19, 23-27 Mark 3, 20-21 Reflection: Jesus is followed by a crowd wanting to hear and be with Him. So many of them crowd into the house where He was staying that neither He nor…
Scripture: I Samuel 24: 3-21Mark3:13-19 Reflection: Saul then said to David: “You are in the right rather than I; you have treated me generously, while I have done you harm.” (I Samuel 24: 18) In today’s first reading Saul is…
Scripture: I Samuel 18: 6-7; 19: 1-7Mark 3:7-12 Reflection: Whatever happened to all those people? In today’s Gospel, St. Mark goes out of his way to tell us that there were an awful lot of people who wanted to be…
Scripture: 1 Samuel 17:32-33, 37, 40-51Mark 3:1-6 Reflection: Everything that Jesus sought in his life and ministry is revealed in today’s gospel. Jesus walks into a synagogue where there was a man “who had a withered hand.” Like so many…
Scripture: 1 Samuel 16:1-13Mark 2:23-28 Reflection: Jesus has just healed a man who was a paralytic. He also spoke of one of the great acts of religion which is fasting. The Pharisees notice that the disciples of Jesus are making…
Scripture: 1 Samuel 15:16-23 Mark 2:18-22 Reflection: Today’s gospel poignantly illustrates how the activities and practices of our lives, even when they are unquestionably good and proper, can sometimes distract us from all the manifestations of God’s loveliness and graciousness…
Scripture: Isaiah 62:1-51 Corinthians 12:4-11John 2:1-11 Reflection: One of the most beautiful movies of recent years told the story about the power of married friendship. The movie is “Shadowlands,” the story of the marriage of C.S. Lewis, the famous English…
Scripture: 1 Samuel 9:1-4, 17-19; 10:1aMark 2:13-17 Reflection: “ those who are well do not need a physician, but the sick do…” Jesus called Levi to follow him, ate with him at his home. Levi, a tax collector, and thus…
Scripture: 1 Samuel 8:4-7, 10-22aMark 2:1-12 Reflection: The Hope in Miracles Today’s reading talks specifically about the authority of kings in the Old Testament and Jesus’s authority in the New Testament. It has always been a topic that interests me,…