Blog posts from January, 2018
Taking Offense
January 31, 2018
St. John Bosco
Mark 6:1-6
Mark’s gospel says it with brutal simplicity: “They took offense at him.”
The people of Jesus rejected him and his ...
A Larger and Tighter Circle
January 24, 2018
St. Marianne Cope (USA)
Mark 3:31-35
We live in circles of relationships: family, friends, school, work, sports team, happy hour, etc. Some of these circles ...
Hunger and Need
January 16, 2018
St. Berard & Companions, Protomartyrs
Mark 2:18-22
The law of the Sabbath was intended to give people a day of rest and a time worship God, our Creator and the ultimate ...
Appreciating the Mystery and Transcendence of God
January 3, 2018
St. Basil the Great and St. Gregory Nazianzen
1 John 2:22-28; John 1:19-28
With all the Sunday Masses I’m celebrating these days, I’m probably reciting what is ...