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. […]
Monday Meditation: RCL Year B, 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time, John 6:51-58
This is the fourth of five weeks that the Revised Common Lectionary spends ringing the changes on John 6, where Jesus proclaims that he is the Bread of Life — though in this particular excerpt he sticks to saying he is the living bread that came down from heaven.” (John 6:51 NRSV) Ringing the Changes […]
Monday Meditation: RCL Year B, 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time, John 6:35, 41-51
This week’s lectionary Gospel text (John 6:35, 41-51) starts with the same verse we ended with last week. Then, oddly, it skips four verses before continuing the story. It is the middle week of a five-week-long revel in John 6, as Jesus discusses, debates, and disputes about manna from heaven and himself as the “Bread […]
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