Go back to sleep SUNDAY READINGS Dear Friends, here is a story by Tom McGrath that speaks to all of us. He writes: When my daughter would tell us she wanted to teach in a foreign country one day I would silently pray that this notion of hers would pass. As her father, my thoughts […]

Saturday 1st. Week of Ordinary Time  Mark 2:13-17  Today’s Mass Readings  We all know that in a court of law, attorneys must produce evidence that shows that a defendant has committed a crime.  The jury convicts the one charged as guilty.  In the times of Jesus, the whole society was the court of Law!   They did not base their judgment  on a single […]

Friday 1st. Week of Ordinary Time  Mark 2:1-12  Daily Mass Reading   We go out of our way to help the handicap.   It may seem strange to us that people in today’s Gospel would not let paralytic see Jesus.    In the Mediterranean mindset at that time,  people would have nothing to do with the paralytic.   Paralysis or any illness was […]

Thursday 1st. Week of Ordinary Time  Mark 1:40-45  The leper’s helplessness and total dependency on others broke his spirit, but it opened him to God.   “If you wish, you can make me clean.”   We may know someone who is enduring a long illness.   The length and severity of their illness  can condition them to a way of life  that no longer seeks change […]

Wednesday 1st. Week of Ordinary Time  Mark 1:29-39  If someone we were with became deadly ill right in front of us,  what is our first thought?   Call 911.   Every minute is vital to save a person’s life.   How silly it would be for us to tell the person,  I’ll get a doctor later, when I get around to […]

Tuesday 1st Week of the Year  Mark 1:21-28  “What is this? A new teaching with authority. He commands even the unclean spirits and they obey him.”  We are grateful that the Lord handed down that authority to the People of God through the Sacrament of Holy Order.  We know that it is Jesus who consecrates the host into His Body.  […]