Category Archives: Daily Gospels

Reflection: Mark 1:21-28 Gospel reading (Mk 1:21-28) is part of a wider narrative called a “day in Capernaum”. At the heart of today’s reading is the event of the exorcism through which Jesus is presented as a powerful prophet in word and deed. He spoke with authority and healed the sick and those possessed by […]

Reflection: Mark 1:14-20 Today, the liturgy begins in the Ordinary Time of the Liturgical Year. The beginning of the Gospel of Mark opens the curtain on the first activities of Jesus: His preaching and the first fruits. Four fishermen drop everything and follow him. He preaches his first sermon in the Gospel of Mark: It […]