First Day of Lent
“Jesus was among wild beasts, and the angels ministered to him.” Mk. 1: 12 The excitement of the Super Bowl is over. “The greatest of them all!” is consistently being ...
Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time
“A leper came to Jesus and kneeling down begged him and said, ‘If you wish, you can make me clean.’ Moved with pity, Jesus stretched out his hand, touched him, ...
Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
“He cured many who were sick with various diseases, and he drove out many demons.” Mk 1:32 Super Bowl Sunday! This weekend millions will gather around TV-s for the sole ...
The Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Come out! …. He commands even the unclean spirits and they obey him.” Mk. 1:26-27 Mark was the inventor of a whole new literary genre that came to be called ...
Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
The Old Testament is filled with remarkably memorable stories: Adam and Eve, the Flood, Moses, the Flight into Egypt – and dozens more. But perhaps the strangest and most bizarre ...
Second Sunday in Ordinary Time “Behold the Lamb of god” (JN. 1,35)
“A lot of church- going people never really got baptized.” This sentence from a very provocative article written by a Catholic priest startled me. What he was proposing was that ...