Posts Tagged ‘healing’
Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Healing the Marginalized
Lectionary Readings: 2 Kings 5:14-17. Namaam is cured of leprosy through the word of God through Elisha. Elisha refuses any gifts and Namaan declares himself a faithful servant of the God of Israel. 2 Timothy 2:8-13. Paul is in chains but the Word of God can never be in chains. If we die in Him ... Read more
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XXIII Sunday of Ordinary Time
Readings: Isaiah 35:4-7 – God comes to open our blind eyes, to clear our deaf ears, to strengthen our lame legs, to turn the thirsting ground into springs of water. James 2:1-5 – Your faith must not allow favoritism. Did not God choose those who are poor in the eyes of the world to be ... Read more
XIII Sunday of Ordinary Time
Readings: Wisdom 1:13-15; 2:23-24 2 Corinthians 8:7, 9, 13-15 Mark 5:21-43 or 5:21-24, 35b-43 Thoughts for your consideration: This week’s lectionary readings remind us of the value of life. We have heard it summarized so many times before that our God is the God of life. In the book of Wisdom and in the Gospel reading ... Read more
In Lectionary Reflections | Tagged Corintians, healing, health, healthcare, Jesus, Life, Mark, righteousness, Wisdom
Lectionary Reflection: March 1, 2009
Readings: Gen 9:8-15 1 Pet 3:18-22 Mark 1:12-15 Thoughts for your consideration: Covenants are a social contract. In many ways the scripture is an ongoing saga of the social contract between God and his Creation. For some Christians this notion of a covenant is understood to be very passive. God is the only active participant ... Read more
Lectionary Reflection: February 15, 2009
Readings: Leviticus 13:1-2, 44-46 1 Corinthians 10:31–11:1 Mark 1:40-45 Thoughts for your consideration: “Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand, touched him, and said to him, “I do will it. Be made clean.”” In this weeks Gospel reading this phrase jumps out at me. Jesus expresses two social values with this encounter with the ... Read more
Lectionary Reflection for February 8, 2009
Readings: Job 7:1-4, 6-7 1 Corinthians 9:16-19, 22-23 Mark 1:29-39 Thoughts for your consideration: The gospel of Mark depicts Jesus getting His public ministry underway in dead earnest. In doing so, Jesus shows it “pays” to be His friend, for He does a special favor for Simon Peter. On Simon’s behalf, He cures ... Read more
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