Please read the Scripture passage before the homily. Mark recorded several times when Jesus asked his disciples why they did not understand. The multiplications of the loaves were more about use of power than about yeast and dough. Hospitality was … Continued
Please read the Scripture passage before the homily. Part of the thrust of Mark’s Gospel is to answer the question about who has power. Another part is that Jesus somehow relives and undergoes in himself the entire history of the … Continued
Please read the Scripture passage before the homily. What is the difference between magic and ritual? Perhaps magic is using symbolic gesture and actions to cause something, and ritual is using relevant gestures and actions to explain something. In the … Continued
Please read this passage before reading the homily. My sisters and brothers, Christ came to complete the law, not to abolish it. The fulness of the law is Christ. Christ likewise is the fulness of Israel, the new Israel. The … Continued
Por favor, lean este pasaje antes. Mis hermanas y hermanos Cristo vino para cumplir la ley, no para abolirla. La plenitud de la ley es Cristo. Cristo también es la plenitud de Israel, el nuevo Isael. Toda la ley se … Continued
Please read the Scripture passage before the homily. I once met a man from China who had come to the United States as a teenage with his parents . He refused to eat with a fork and spoon because he … Continued
Please read the Scripture passage before the homily. The first chapters of Mark have been describing a power struggle of Jesus with the devil. In tis short passage we hear of Jesus’ movements around Galilee healing people. He is beating … Continued
Please read this passage before reading the homily. My sisters and brothers, ”You are the salt of the earth”, says the Lord. Salt is very biblical. It is the sign of God’s covenant with us. The Israelites added salt to … Continued
Por favor, lean este pasaje antes. Mis hermanas y hermanos “Ustedes son la sal de la tierra,” dice el Señor. La sal es muy bíblica. Es signo de la alianza de Dios con su pueblo. Los israelitas añadieron sal con … Continued
Please read the Scripture passage before the homily. Let us first study King Herod. He inherited one fourth of his father’s kingdom and so his official title was tetrarch, not king: a tetrarch is one who rules only a fourth … Continued