Saturday of 2nd Week in Ordinary Time Hungry for the Message A messenger comes to announce to David that King Saul and his Son Jonathan have died in battle and David mourns them deeply, even though Saul had sought David’s life. The few verses of today’s Gospel tell us no more than that the […]
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Reflection: Mk 3:20-21 So radical was the novelty of the teachings of Jesus that not even his own family understood him. They, thought that he was not mentally sound and therefore, wanted to take him away. They were scared of what Jesus was doing in their little world. His family was worried, perhaps also because […]
Saturday of 2nd Week in Ordinary Time Hungry for the Message Introduction A messenger comes to announce to David that King Saul and his Son Jonathan have died in battle and David mourns them deeply, even though Saul had sought David’s life. The few verses of today’s Gospel tell us no more […]
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Acts of the Apostles In the spring of 58, the apostle Paul left Philippi in Macedonia, where he had celebrated the feast of the Unleavened Bread, that is, the Passover, and left to go to Jerusalem. He arrived there for the feast of Pentecost, so the journey took about 50 days, and it was […]
Friday of 2nd Week in Ordinary Time AGNES, Virgin and Martyr Few saints have been as popular in Rome as the twelve or thirteen-year old girl martyr St. Agnes. At a time of massive defections from the faith, in 305 she endured torture with idealism and patient faithfulness. Even the young can make hard […]
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Reflection: Mark 3: 13-19 Today the Church celebrates the Memorial of Saint Agnes, a third century Virgin and Martyr in Rome. At the age of 12, Saint Agnes endured torture and death because she refused the marriage proposal from someone in power. She had accepted Jesus as her spouse and she preferred death instead of […]