Reflection: Mark 1:40-45 A week ago we have reflected on Jesus healing the leper by touching him, as recorded by St. Luke in Chapter 5. We reflected on the courage of the leper who dared to breach the quarantine regulations – that were the social norms of those days to approach Jesus and also the […]
Thursday of 1st Week in Ordinary Time If I Could Only Touch Him Introduction Among the Jews, the Ark of the Covenant was the sign of God’s presence. This is why as the people moved, the ark moved with them. God was where his people were. Also in their clashes with the Philistines, they […]
PROVINCE OF EASTERN COLOMBIA AND ECUADOR The Claretian Missionaries of the Province of Eastern Colombia and Ecuador, has commenced courses on Popular and Community Reading of the Bible yesterday, 10 January, 2022, with over 137 participants. The objective is to offer a space of formation that allows the religious and pastoral agents to deepen their knowledge of […]
Wednesday of 1st Week in Ordinary Time Hear God and Answer Today’s first reading tells us the beautiful story of Samuel’s vocation. He is the man attentive to the signs of God’s presence, hearing the inaudible, seeing the invisible, where others do not hear or see anything. He is in contact with God, like […]
Reflection: Mark 1:29-39 Today’s Gospel passage presents Jesus’ healing of Peter’s mother-in-law and then of many other sick and suffering people who gather round him. The healing of Peter’s mother-in-law is the first physical healing recounted by Mark: the woman is in bed with a fever. Father Armellini gives a beautiful explanation for this act […]