Archive for January 2010

The Call

Mark 3: 13-19 1Sam 24: 3-21 / Ps 57 Jesus went up on a mountainside and called to Him those He wanted, and they came to Him. (Mark 3:13) Chant His praise across the nation! Let His Good News be heard by all! We’ve been chosen for salvation, All you faithful who heed His call. [...]

The Messiah and the Multitudes

Mark 3: 7-12 1Sam 18: 6-9,19:1-7 / Ps 56 All who were afflicted with diseases pressed toward him in order that they could touch him. And whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they fell down before him and cried out, “You are the Son of God!” (Mark 3:10-12) Of all the things under my concern [...]

Stretching Our Faith

Mark 3: 1-6 1 Sam 17: 32-51 / Ps 144 “Which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill?” (Mark 3: 4) May Jesus free us from our doubts, Give us the grace to understand That until we learn to stretch out, Our faith is [...]

Keeping the Sabbath Holy

Mark 2: 23-28 1 Sm 16: 1-13/ Ps 89: 20-22, 27-28 Then he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.” (Mark 2:27-28) True worship lies within the heart, Not in a special day or place; We cannot [...]

A Time to Feast and a Time to Fast

Mark 2: 18-22 1 Sm 15:16-23 / Psa 50 No one sews a piece of new cloth on an old cloak; or else the new piece pulls away from the old, and the tear gets worse. And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine bursts the wineskins, the wine [...]

Listen, the Lord is Calling

Mark 2: 13-17 1 Sm 9:1-4,17,19,10:1 / Ps 21 Jesus said, ‘Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.’ (Mark 2:17) We sometimes give a false excuse When the occasion doesn’t suit us; Take heed, this [...]