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Scripture: 2 Samuel 12: 1-7a; 10-17Mark 4:35-41 Reflection: “He woke up, rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Quiet! Be still!” The wind ceased and there was a great calm.” Mark 4:39 Rembrandt’s, Christ in the Storm on the…
Memorial of Saint Thomas Aquinas Scripture: 2 Samuel 11:1-4a, 5-10a, 13-17Mark 4:26-34 Reflection: Today we reflect on the scriptures for the solemnity of Saint Thomas Aquinas. Aquinas was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, Catholic priest and Doctor of the Church.…
Scripture: 2 Samuel 7:18-19, 24-29 Mark 4:21-25 Reflection: The reading from Mark today asks us if we have a lamp, do we hide it or put it on a table so the light can illuminate everything around it? We must…
Scripture: 2 Timothy 1:1-8 or Titus 1:1-5Mark 4:1-20 Reflection: The Parable of the Sower in today’s Gospel from St. Mark is one of the most familiar stories in scripture. We know what happens to the seed once it is sown.…
Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul Scripture: Acts 22:3-16Mark 16:15-18 Reflection: We’ve all heard talk of “Road to Damascus” experiences where a person undergoes a dramatic conversion experience as a result of a direct and overwhelming experience of the…
Scripture: 2 Samuel 5:1-7, 10Mark 3:22-30 Reflection: Prayer, Remaining in His Love These words in John’s Gospel have to be some of the most remarkable in the New Testament! “Just as the Father has loved Me, I have also loved…
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…