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It’s that time of year when we hear apocalyptic Scriptures, today’s from the Book of Revelation and the Gospel of Mark. This highly imaginative and symbolic writing was meant to both warn and reassure people facing death-dealing forces around them. So these Scriptures invite us to look at death-dealing forces…
In the first (Hebrew Scripture) reading and the Gospel reading this Sunday, two widows illustrate one teaching. In the first reading, a poor widow living in the midst of terrible famine is making a final meal for herself and her son; the prophet Elijah asks her to share it. In…
Hear or listen, from our first reading (Deuteronomy 6:2-6) connotes “Always remember, never forget!” “Remember now!” What the people are to remember is that the Lord is our God, the Lord alone. This religious mantra unites Jews, Muslims and Christians. And this mantra is the context for the rest of…
In Sunday’s Gospel, a blind beggar named Bartimaeus, ignored by the crowd traveling with Jesus, is invited by Jesus to come forward. We catch a glimpse of his personality. He casts his cloak away — his most prized possession, the thing that kept him warm while sleeping rough at night…
Sunday’s Gospel is so very human. Two apostles are trying to get to the head of the pack, and sit at the right and left side of Jesus in the kingdom of heaven. When the other disciples hear about this, they get mad! (Why them and not me?) Don’t humans…
Recently a wealthy man was regaling me with how many hours he spends opening the multitudes of appeals he gets in the mail — and the ways he decides among them. He gives several thousand dollars a week to various appeals. Then he said, with great seriousness, that a concern…
Today’s first reading from Genesis and the Gospel reading from Mark present an ideal image of union between a man and a woman. Later this beautiful image will be used by Paul to describe the union between God and the church. In the Genesis narrative we hear today, the woman…
If you were to make a list of sayings of Jesus that you wished were NOT in the Gospel, probably you would select some of the lines from this one today! If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off … And if your foot causes you to sin,…
When the late Bishop Kenneth Untener was appointed to the Saginaw Diocese, he asked to meet all his priests. He came into the room where they were assembled wearing an apron, and with a towel on his arm, and said: Hello! I’m Ken and I’ll be your waiter. The leader…
In today’s Gospel reading, Peter reacts like we might! Jesus had been performing mighty acts, great miracles that had people suspecting Jesus was something greater than even a prophet. Peter himself professes that belief as he says, You are the Christ! But then Jesus tells his disciples that he must…
