Posts Tagged ‘Mark’
XII Sunday of Ordinary Time
Readings: Job 38:1, 8-11 2 Cor. 5:14-17 Mark 4:35-41 Thoughts for your Consideration: The sea is an awesome image that reveals the great power of creation. On the one hand the sea is turbulent and destructive. Yet the sea is also life-giving and calming. The early apostles who lived around the Sea of Galilee were ... Read more
In Lectionary Reflections | Tagged befriending the earth, Corinthians, Integrity of Creation, Jesus, Job, Mark, New Cosmology, Ocean, Paul, Sea, solidarity, Tom Berry
Ascension Thursday
Readings: Acts 1:1-11 Eph. 1:17-23 Mark 16:15-20 Thoughts for your consideration: Jesus Christ is the incarnation of God and Man. His life demonstrates to us the great mystery of what it means to be a human who serves the will of God the Father. True, Jesus is the Son of God and as such we ... Read more
In Lectionary Reflections | Tagged Acts, Ascension, incarnation, Jesus, John, Mark
Easter Sunday
Readings: Saturday Vigil: Genesis 1:1–2:2 Genesis 22:1-18 Exodus 14:15–15:1 Isaiah 54:5-14 Isaiah 55:1-11 Baruch 3:9-15, 32–4:4 Ezekiel 36:16-17a, 18-28 Romans 6:3-11 Luke 24:1-12 Easter Sunday: Acts 10:34a, 37-43 Colossians 3:1-4 or 1 Corinthians 5:6b-8 John 20:1-9 or Mark 16:1-7 or Luke 24:13-35 Thoughts for your consideration: By John Gonzalez What are we to make of ... Read more
In Lectionary Reflections | Tagged Easter Sunday, injustice, Isaiah, Jesus, John, Kingdom of God, Luke, Mark, Peter, Resurrection
Lectionary Reflection: Palm Sunday
Readings: Gospel for the Procession of Palms: Mark 11:1-10 or John 12:12-16 Isaiah 50:4-7 Philippians 2:6-11 Mark 14:1–15:47 or Mark 15:1-39 Thoughts for Your Consideration: by John Gonzalez, CPP This week we celebrate Palm Sunday. As I read the lectionary readings I am struck by the following line from Paul’s letter to the Philippians: “Christ ... Read more
Lectionary Reflection: Second Sunday of lent
Readings: Genesis 22:1-2, 9a, 10-13, 15-18 Romans 8:31b-34 Mark 9:2-10 Thoughts for your consideration: This Sunday we are asked to see things in a new way. Although the apostles have been with Jesus for a while now there is nothing that can quite prepare them for the ultimate cosmological experience of the Resurrection. It is ... Read more
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
Lectionary Reflection for February 1, 2009
Readings: Deuteronomy 18:15-20 1 Corinthians 7:32-35 Mark 1:21-28 Thoughts for your consideration: This week God is asking us for our undivided attention. God offers the post-exilic Jewish community an ongoing prophetic tradition. However he warns them that a prophet is not infallible. If the prophet is committed to God alone then his prophesies will ... Read more
Lectionary Reflection for January 25, 2008
Readings: Jonah 3:1-5, 10 1 Corinthians 7:29-31 Mark 1:14-20 Thoughts for Your Consideration: For many of us change is a very challenging concept. Change is usually unexpected, sometimes change can be positive, other times it is negative, but almost all the time it throws us off. It is a basic aspect of human nature to ... Read more
In Lectionary Reflections | Tagged change, Christian, Corinthians, God, inauguration, Jesus, Jonah, Lectionary Reflections, Mark, Obama, Paul, suffering
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