Homilies and Lectio Divina

Gospel Reading Mk 12: 41-44 41He sat down opposite the treasury, and watched the crowd putting money into the treasury. Many rich people put in large sums.  42A poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which are worth a penny. 43Then he called his disciples and said to them, “Truly I tell…

Gospel Reading Mark 10: 2-12 or (16) 2Some Pharisees came, and to test him they asked,”Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”  3He answered them, “What did Moses command you?”  4They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her.”  5But Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of…

Gospel Reading (Mk 9:38-48) 38John said to him, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him, because he was not following us.” 39But Jesus said, “Do not stop him; for no one who does a deed of power in my name will be able soon afterward to…

Mk 7: 1-8; 14-15; 21-23 1Now when the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around him,2they noticed that some of his disciples were eating with defiled hands, that is, without washing them.3(For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat unless they thoroughly wash their hands, thus observing…

John 6: 60-69 60When many of his disciples heard it, they said, “This teaching is difficult; who can accept it?”  61But Jesus, being aware that his disciples were complaining about it, said to them, “Does this offend you? 62Then what if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?

Sunday Reflection Gospel Reading John 6:1-14  1After this Jesus went to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, also called the Sea of Tiberias.  2A large crowd kept following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing for the sick.  3Jesus went up the mountain and sat down there with his disciples.