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Scripture: James 3:1-10Mark 9:2-13 Reflection: In our Gospel reading for today, we hear the account in Mark’s Gospel of the Transfiguration of Jesus in the presence of the apostles Peter, James and John. These three get a glimpse of Jesus’…
Scripture: James 2:14-24, 26Mark 8: 34-9:1 Reflection: We all have gone to a funeral home and viewed the body of a loved one or friend. They are lifeless, their spirit has departed. In today’s first reading, James makes it clear…
Scripture: James 2:1-9 Mark 8:27-33 Reflection Today’s gospel begins with Jesus and his disciples making their way to “the villages around Caesarea Philippi.” As they are walking, Jesus poses a question that would make any of us pause: “Who do…
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…