On the 25th Sunday of Ordinary time the lectionary skips ahead most of a chapter to Mark 9:30-37. (A little bit of the skipped part came up earlier in the year: Mark 9:2-9 was the Gospel for the last Sunday before Lent, the Transfiguration.) Last week in chapter 8 Jesus started predicting his passion and […]
Monday Meditation: RCL Year B, 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Mark 8:27-38
Most of this Sunday’s lectionary Gospel is making its second appearance this year: The 2nd Sunday of Lent gave us Mark 8:31-38 The 24th Sunday of Ordinary Time has Mark 8:27-38. (Mark 8:1-26 is left out in the cold, alas. I consider this an enormous loss. I’ll have to write on it some day — […]
Monday Meditation: RCL Year B, 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Mark 7:24-37
In the lectionary Gospel reading for the 23rd Sunday of Ordinary time (Mark 7:24-37), we have two very different healing stories. What unites them is that they both happen as Jesus and his friends are on the same travel itinerary through Tyre, Sidon, and the Decapolis. Mysteries in Mark 7:24-37 There are a number of […]
Monday Meditation: RCL Year B, 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23
On the 22nd Sunday of Ordinary time we are back in Mark. The lectionary continues where it left off before our five week sojourn in John on the Bread of Life. As is so often the case, the Revised Common Lectionary leaves out some bits of the passage so it looks like three short readings […]
Monday Meditation: RCL Year B, 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time, John 6:56-69
Since Jesus was God in the flesh, he must have been able to see into the future — right? But can we reasonably think that in this week’s lectionary Gospel he was gazing forward into 21st century American Christianity and trying to tweak every branch of the Church simultaneously? I know: That’s a bit absurd. […]
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