Category Archives: Daily Gospels

Reflection: Mark 10: 1-12 While writing the Gospel, Evangelist Mark selected and put together various incidents from Jesus’ life to address the issues that he considered particularly significant for life within the Christian community. In today’s gospel, the Pharisees, raises the issue of divorce. Mark’s community in Rome may have been experiencing this problem. Jesus […]

Reflection: Mk 9:41-50 Mark the evangelist expresses his concerns over the bad examples of the members of his community and leading others into loss of faith in the message of the Gospel. He reminds his Community, about how harsh Jesus was, on those who created divisions in the community. St. Mark would teach the Church […]

Reflection: Mk 9:38-41 Today’s gospel speaks about an unknown exorcist and Mark discusses the issues of diversity and inclusiveness in the early church. Exorcisms were a well-documented phenomenon in early Church. Mark’s episode of the unknown exorcist reflects such a historical situation. Through the episode, Mark explains that God’s kingdom expands not merely through certain […]