Comments on the Festive Readings

Readings: 2 Kings 4:42-44; Eph 4:1-6; Jn 6:1-15 The liturgy today interrupts the “lectio continua” of Mark's…

Readings: Jer 21:3-6; Eph 2:13-18; Mk 6:30-34 In today's Gospel (Mk 6:30-34), the Apostles ("apòstoloi" means…

Readings: Am 7:12-15; Eph 1:3-14; Mk 6:7-13 Today's Gospel is the church's "Magna Charta" if it is to remain…

Readings: Ez 2:2-5; 2 Cor 12:7-10; Mk 6:1-6 The prologue of Mark's Gospel (1:1-13) had closed with the…

Readings: Wis 1:13-15; 2:23-24; 2 Cor 8:7,9,13-15; Mk 5:21-43 Today's readings offer us a path on the meaning of…

Readings: Gb 38:1, 8-11; 2 Cor 5:14-17; Mk 4:35-41 In Mark's Gospel, miracles occupy about a third of the…

Readings: Eze 17:22-24; 2 Cor 5:6-10; Mk 4:26-34 Mark's Gospel gives much space to Jesus' works, and little to his…

Readings: Gen. 3:9-15; 2 Cor. 4:13-5:1; Mk. 3:20-35 Jesus' activity as an exorcist is undoubtedly a historical…

Readings: Ex 24:3-8; Heb 9:11-15; Mk 14:12-16.22-2 The Eucharist is “the source and summit of the Christian life”…

Readings: Deut. 4:32-34,39-40; Rom. 8:14-17; Mt. 28:16-20 To some extent, when God had revealed in Genesis that it…