Category: Weekly Sunday Blog archive
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Imagining Sunday’s Gospel
Click here to read the Gospel story Faith and power, power and faith. First we find that the number twelve is used in both parts of this Marcan “sandwich” story. The number twelve is a call back to the twelve tribes of Israel and the number of Apostles called by…
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Imagining Sunday’s Gospel
Click her for the readings Thomas plays a prominent part in this week’s Gospel. Thomas was certainly a most colorful character maybe after Peter and John. Thomas is the Jewish word for twin. So where was his twin, if he had one? Didymmus in Greek also means twin. Was he…
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Imagining Sunday’s Gospel
Click here to read the Gospel for the third Sunday of lent All four Gospels report the cleansing of the temple but John’s version which we read this week happens early in Jesus’ public ministry. So what is it about the temple and Passover that gets so many travelers for…
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Imagining Sunday’s Gospel
Click here for the Sunday Gospel for the second Sunday of Lent In the story of the transfiguration, we get a couple of interesting old testament figures, Moses and Elijah, helping things out. In our version today, Mark just notes their appearance and that they were conversing with Jesus (how…
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Imagining Sunday’s Gospel
Click here to read the Gospel In Mark’s Gospel, before Jesus had followers or a following, he was baptized and then driven into the desert to be tempted by Satan. So what is it like to be tempted by Satan? We all experience it. With Adam and Eve, it was…
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Imagining Sunday’s Gospel
Click here to read the Gospel In the story of the leper who wished to be made clean, the leper first wishes to be healed which he would need to start the process of re-entering society. But once made clean that seems a little farther down the list. In the…
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Imagining Sunday’s Gospel
Click here to read the Gospel Many times in the Gospels, Jesus cures someone on the sabbath as he does in the beginning of this Gospel by bringing Simon Peter’s mother in law back to health. Since nothing in the Gospels is extraneous it is curious that later in this…
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Imagining Sunday’s Gospel
Click here to read Sunday’s Gospel For the Fourth Sunday in ordinary time, we pick up after lasts week’s Gospel of the calling of the first four disciples, one day, apostles. After some teaching recognized as with authority, Jesus drives out a demon from the man with the unclean spirit…
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Imagining Sunday’s Gospel
Click here to read the Gospel For the Third Sunday in Ordinary time we hear of John the Baptist’s arrest and Jesus kicking off his public ministry by proclaiming that the kingdom of God is at hand. Jesus then nets some disciples at the waterfront of the sea of Galilee.…
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Imagining Sunday’s Gospel
Click here to read this week’s Gospel After John the Baptist’s testimony about Jesus being the Lamb of God in the previous verses we get to the recruiting of the first disciples of Jesus. Andrew is the first named disciple in John’s gospel and later to be called to be…
Walking In Peace 