Our readings this week continue with Mark describing the early impact of Jesus as people started to see his power and authority. This is who we chose to follow. However we also know that the choice to follow doesn’t provide immediate answers to all the questions we face in life. So we also hear Paul […]
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Jonah must be one of the best known characters in the Bible, up there with Noah and his ark, recognized by pretty much everyone regardless of their religious background or lack of it. I think we have to admit that Jonah’s fame is more due to the whale than anything he himself brought to the
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We start the journey with Jesus which leads from his baptism in the wilds of the Jordan Valley to Jerusalem and his death and everything that follows from that. We hear how he started by gathering a small group of followers. Our attention is pointed towards the call to listen to God, not just in
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Today, with the feast of the Baptism of the Lord, the final feast of the Christmas season, we transition from our celebration of Christmas and our focus on the childhood of Jesus to his adult life. Appropriately our gospel reading is from the start of Mark’s Gospel. Mark doesn’t include anything before this time –
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For Isaiah Jerusalem was the center of the world, God’s world. That was where the camels would bring the gift-bearers with their gold and frankincense. Matthew uses the same image to place the infant Jesus at the center of God’s world. It’s no longer a place that matters, it is a person. The Feast of
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