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When a young Eva Kollisch arrives as a refugee in New York in 1940, she finds a community among socialists who share her values and idealism. She soon discovers ‘the cause’ isn’t as idyllic as it seems. Little does she know this is the beginning of a lifelong commitment to activism and her determination to create radical change in ways that include belonging, love and one's full self. In addition to Eva Kollisch’s memoirs Girl in Movement (2000) and The Ground Under My Feet (2014), LBI’s collections include an oral history interview with Eva conducted in 2014 and the papers of Eva’s mother, poet Margarete Kolllisch, which document Eva’s childhood experience on the Kindertransport. Learn more at www.lbi.org/kollisch . Exile is a production of the Leo Baeck Institute , New York | Berlin and Antica Productions . It’s narrated by Mandy Patinkin. Executive Producers include Katrina Onstad, Stuart Coxe, and Bernie Blum. Senior Producer is Debbie Pacheco. Associate Producers are Hailey Choi and Emily Morantz. Research and translation by Isabella Kempf. Sound design and audio mix by Philip Wilson, with help from Cameron McIver. Theme music by Oliver Wickham. Voice acting by Natalia Bushnik. Special thanks to the Kollisch family for the use of Eva’s two memoirs, “Girl in Movement” and “The Ground Under My Feet”, the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College and their “Voices of Feminism Oral History Project”, and Soundtrack New York.…
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المحتوى المقدم من YEA Networks and Msgr. Don Fischer. يتم تحميل جميع محتويات البودكاست بما في ذلك الحلقات والرسومات وأوصاف البودكاست وتقديمها مباشرة بواسطة YEA Networks and Msgr. Don Fischer أو شريك منصة البودكاست الخاص بهم. إذا كنت تعتقد أن شخصًا ما يستخدم عملك المحمي بحقوق الطبع والنشر دون إذنك، فيمكنك اتباع العملية الموضحة هنا https://ar.player.fm/legal.
At a particular time in our evolution, God chose to enter into our world and a story was born. It has been carefully written, proclaimed and pondered. It possesses the power to awaken a knowing that has always been in us…the ability to experience the God who is, and to know a love that exceeds all others. Msgr. Don was ordained a Catholic priest in 1967. His preaching ministry grew beyond his parish work, and in 1987 began a Sunday radio broadcast that ran for 36 years on WRR in Dallas, TX. He has never tired of pondering the story, and admits the God he knew at his ordination, has little in common with the God he has discovered.Pastoral Reflections institute is non-profit located in Dallas, TX dedicated to enriching your spiritual journey.
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المحتوى المقدم من YEA Networks and Msgr. Don Fischer. يتم تحميل جميع محتويات البودكاست بما في ذلك الحلقات والرسومات وأوصاف البودكاست وتقديمها مباشرة بواسطة YEA Networks and Msgr. Don Fischer أو شريك منصة البودكاست الخاص بهم. إذا كنت تعتقد أن شخصًا ما يستخدم عملك المحمي بحقوق الطبع والنشر دون إذنك، فيمكنك اتباع العملية الموضحة هنا https://ar.player.fm/legal.
At a particular time in our evolution, God chose to enter into our world and a story was born. It has been carefully written, proclaimed and pondered. It possesses the power to awaken a knowing that has always been in us…the ability to experience the God who is, and to know a love that exceeds all others. Msgr. Don was ordained a Catholic priest in 1967. His preaching ministry grew beyond his parish work, and in 1987 began a Sunday radio broadcast that ran for 36 years on WRR in Dallas, TX. He has never tired of pondering the story, and admits the God he knew at his ordination, has little in common with the God he has discovered.Pastoral Reflections institute is non-profit located in Dallas, TX dedicated to enriching your spiritual journey.
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1 PRI Reflections of Scripture | Saturday after Ash Wednesday 6:18
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Gospel Luke 5:27-32 Jesus saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the customs post. He said to him, "Follow me." And leaving everything behind, he got up and followed him. Then Levi gave a great banquet for him in his house, and a large crowd of tax collectors and others were at table with them. The Pharisees and their scribes complained to his disciples, saying, "Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?" Jesus said to them in reply, "Those who are healthy do not need a physician, but the sick do. I have not come to call the righteous to repentance but sinners.” Reflection This story is a beautiful story about the clarity of who Jesus was compared to the leaders of the temple. They saw evil as something that should be avoided at all times. You don't get near it, you don't get around it. And that would make you holier. And it’s so interesting that they didn't seem to care for those who were in the pain of sin, and Jesus comes to turn that upside down. The Pharisees and scribes were not to be models of perfection, but they were to be healers. And Jesus pointed this out so clearly when he simply reminds them that the God who created them, the God who is, came into the world as a healer, not an example of perfection. Closing Prayer Father, we know that evil is a powerful force. But you've taught us that you are so much more powerful. And when you are within us, when we are counting on your strength, not our own, to overcome evil, we will always succeed. So bless us with this confidence. And we ask this in Jesus’ name, Amen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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1 PRI Reflections of Scripture | Friday after Ash Wednesday 5:48
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Gospel Matthew 9:14-15 The disciples of John approached Jesus and said, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast much, but your disciples do not fast?" Jesus answered them, "Can the wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast." Reflection Fasting in the time of Jesus was not just not eating food. It was about deep reflection, most especially about repentance. Wanting to change, struggling to change. What Jesus is pointing out, that when you have the source of forgiveness living with you, when you have this source of truth living with you, there's no reason to go off by yourself and to ponder and to wonder and to ask when he is right there in your midst. It's a beautiful image of what the Old Testament is versus the New Testament. The Old Testament longs for a Savior. The New Testament announces his presence. Closing Prayer Father, during this season, help us to recognize the reality of your presence in our hearts. That when we go there and converse with you, we are truly engaged in the most important work, particularly the work of this season. Bless us with an awareness of your presence. And we ask this in Jesus’ name, Amen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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1 PRI Reflections of Scripture | Thursday after Ash Wednesday 5:56
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Gospel Luke 9:22-25 Jesus said to his disciples: "The Son of Man must suffer greatly and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed and on the third day be raised." Then he said to all, "If anyone wishes to come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it. What profit is there for one to gain the whole world yet lose or forfeit himself?” Reflection Jesus had to die in order to bring life into the world. It's the great paradox. Why would we he be asked to die in order to live? If it wasn't for the fact that there is such a radical change when Jesus came into the world to explain how and why we are here. It is a cry for authenticity. It is the need to be honest about who we are to ourselves and to one another. The less authenticity there is, the less grace that abounds. Closing Prayer Father, your will is that the kingdom be established here on this earth. And it cannot grow. It cannot become what you long for it to become, without our honest reflections on who we are and why we're here. Bless us, especially during this Lenten season, to ponder these mysteries and to grow in our authenticity. And we ask this in Jesus’ name, Amen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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1 PRI Reflections of Scripture | Ash Wednesday 7:16
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Gospel Matthew 6:1-6, 16-18 Jesus said to his disciples: "Take care not to perform righteous deeds in order that people may see them; otherwise, you will have no recompense from your heavenly Father. When you give alms, do not blow a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets to win the praise of others. Amen, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you give alms, do not let your left hand know what your right is doing, so that your almsgiving may be secret. And your Father who sees in secret will repay you. ”When you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, who love to stand and pray in the synagogues and on street corners so that others may see them. Amen, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you pray, go to your inner room, close the door, and pray to your Father in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will repay you. "When you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites. They neglect their appearance, so that they may appear to others to be fasting. Amen, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, so that you may not appear to be fasting, except to your Father who is hidden. And your Father who sees what is hidden will repay you.” Reflection What strikes me in this list of things that we should do, is the image of prayer. When you pray, you go to the inner room. Where is that inner room? What is it? And it seems so clear to me, it's our heart where God dwells. We are taught to go to that inner place, and to spend time with God, and to seek his advice and his direction, it’s called our conscience. And it's such a gift, such a treasure. And during this season of lent, it seems like nothing would be better than to spend more and more time with God in our hearts and listen. Listen to how he wants us to grow and change. That's his will. That's why he is present. Closing Prayer Father, you make yourself so available to us. Dwelling in our hearts. Resonating love and healing. Bless us with this recognition. Help us never to lose the beauty of your relationship with us as we continue to work for your kingdom. And we ask this in Jesus’ name, Amen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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1 PRI Reflections of Scripture | Tuesday of the 8th Week in Ordinary Time 6:00
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Gospel Mark 10:28-31 Peter began to say to Jesus, 'We have given up everything and followed you." Jesus said, "Amen, I say to you, there is no one who has given up house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands for my sake and for the sake of the Gospel who will not receive a hundred times more now in this present age: houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and eternal life in the age to come. But many that are first will be last, and the last will be first.” Reflection It's clear that Jesus had a message that people could not fathom at the beginning, because they didn't have the wisdom of the Holy Spirit to help them. So when he talks about the first being last, the last being first, he's saying, I'm going to be giving you a whole new vision of who you are and what this world is about and why you're here. And what he's saying to his disciples, be patient. It's difficult to rethink everything, but simply know that it leads to a fullness. It's not a loss. But a gain. Closing Prayer Father, we always want things to be more simple. We want to say, if I do this, I get this reward. Bless us with a freedom from that kind of thinking. Open this up to a new mystery. A mystical life where God is continually reforming who we are and opening our mind to why we are here. And we ask this in Jesus’ name, Amen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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1 PRI Reflections of Scripture | Monday of the 8th Week in Ordinary Time 7:11
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Gospel Mark 10:17-27 As Jesus was setting out on a journey, a man ran up, knelt down before him, and asked him, ""Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?"" Jesus answered him, ""Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone. You know the commandments: You shall not kill; you shall not commit adultery; you shall not steal; you shall not bear false witness; you shall not defraud; honor your father and your mother." " He replied and said to him, ""Teacher, all of these I have observed from my youth."" Jesus, looking at him, loved him and said to him, ""You are lacking in one thing. Go, sell what you have, and give to the poor and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me."" At that statement, his face fell, and he went away sad, for he had many possessions. Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, ""How hard it is for those who have wealth to enter the Kingdom of God!"" The disciples were amazed at his words. So Jesus again said to them in reply, ""Children, how hard it is to enter the Kingdom of God! It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle. than for one who is rich to enter the Kingdom of God.” They were exceedingly astonished and said among themselves, “Then who can be saved?” Jesus looked at them and said, “For men it is impossible, but not for God. All things are possible for God.” Reflection The enthusiasm of the young man running up to Jesus, hoping to get an A-plus for the work that he had done to receive all the gifts that God is offering. And Jesus, in a very loving way, points out that he’s misunderstood something so essential. No one saves themselves. No one is the source of their salvation. Salvation is a gift given by God to those who are humble enough and grounded enough to receive it as the essence of God's gift of life. That's what he longs for us to have. But we don't get it by earning it. Please pause and reflect upon these images and then I will close with a prayer. Closing Prayer Father, you teach us over and over to be receptive to all that you long to share with us. Your greatest gift is your spirit, the Holy Spirit dwelling in us. And it brings us such wisdom. So bless us with receptivity, trust, openness, not to figuring it out, but to receive the answer. That's who God is. And we ask this in Jesus’ name Amen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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1 HOMILY • The Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time 27:55
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1 PRI Reflections on Scripture | Saturday of the 7th Week in Ordinary Time 5:59
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Gospel Mark 10:13-16 People were bringing children to Jesus that he might touch them, but the disciples rebuked them. When Jesus saw this he became indignant and said to them, "Let the children come to me; do not prevent them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these. Amen, I say to you, whoever does not accept the Kingdom of God like a child will not enter it." Then he embraced the children and blessed them, placing his hands on them. Reflection Throughout this week we see in Jesus so often disturbed or not happy with where the disciples are. And here he becomes indignant that they would think that Jesus does not want to be with the children. But Jesus uses children in the most interesting way by saying, unless you become like this, you can't be in my kingdom. And I think so often of these things that are childlike. Trust. Imagination. They love stories. They love things that are beautiful, and they seem free of ego and free of all that Jesus is worried about in his disciples, power over people. It's not a disposition of a child, but of an adult who misunderstands the kingdom. Closing Prayer Father, we pray for the gift of being childlike. Like everything that you ask us to be, it comes through not just our deciding to do it, but through your grace to enable us to accomplish it. Make us like children. Keep us trusting. Open to mystery. And we ask this in Jesus’ name, Amen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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1 PRI Reflections on Scripture | Friday of the 7th Week in Ordinary Time 6:52
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Gospel Mark 10:1-12 Jesus came into the district of Judea and across the Jordan. Again crowds gathered around him and, as was his custom, he again taught them. The Pharisees approached him and asked, ""Is it lawful for a husband to divorce his wife?"" They were testing him. He said to them in reply, ""What did Moses command you?"" They replied, ""Moses permitted a husband to write a bill of divorce and dismiss her."" But Jesus told them, ""Because of the hardness of your hearts he wrote you this commandment. But from the beginning of creation, God made them male and female. For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. So they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, no human being must separate."" In the house the disciples again questioned Jesus about this. He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her; and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.” Reflection When Jesus is talking about divorce, the world the disciples lived in, where it was very easy for a man especially to get a divorce from a woman by just simply writing a bill of divorce, hand her the paper and she was cast out. Jesus wants to make clear to the disciples that he sees marriage differently, and what he wants everyone to experience is a kind of oneness that comes through a sacrament, a ritual that he establishes where the person can feel a mysterious power within them that makes them sense that anything they do, they've done to their partner. That there's an unbreakable bond, and to be convinced of that is the goal of marriage. It’s not always understood. It's not always accepted. And even Jesus himself gave some exceptions to divorce. And the beauty of his teaching is the simple truth that one is asked to go beyond human nature, participate in divinity within them, and continue to work through the difficulties of a marriage. Closing Prayer Father, help us to trust in grace. The mysterious power that you share with us to accomplish the way in which we are asked to live in this world. And we ask this in Jesus’ name, Amen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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1 PRI Reflections on Scripture | Thursday of the 7th Week in Ordinary Time 7:47
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Gospel Mark 9:41-50 Jesus said to his disciples: ""Anyone who gives you a cup of water to drink because you belong to Christ, amen, I say to you, will surely not lose his reward. ""Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were put around his neck and he were thrown into the sea. If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed than with two hands to go into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire. And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life crippled than with two feet to be thrown into Gehenna. And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. Better for you to enter into the Kingdom of God with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into Gehenna, where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched. ""Everyone will be salted with fire. Salt is good, but if salt becomes insipid, with what will you restore its flavor? Keep salt in yourselves and you will have peace with one another."" Reflection Jesus continues his desire to make sure his disciples understand the heart of ministry. It's not about being great, it's about being humble. Being a servant. So he uses these three images of amputation, which is a very strong point, but what he's really saying is your hand, it's about doing things, so if you ever think that you have to do things perfectly and better than anyone else, you're in trouble. It'd be better to be limited. If your foot is your problem, it's about where you are supposed to be. Do you want to be at the top of the heap? Is that the whole issue? Better to be unable to get to the top and amputate your foot. And if your eye is your problem, do you think you need to see everything, understand everything, and be the wisest person in the room? No. Better to be unable to see fully. All of it is about being transformed by accepting our weaknesses. Our weaknesses is often what makes us the greatest. You put salt on a wound, it burns. Fire is an image of a burning, a purification. It's interesting that Jesus is telling his disciples that when you experience an inability to do things, that can be a blessing and you can have peace, knowing greatness is not about doing, it's about being. Closing Prayer Father, those of us who are ministers. Those of us who are in charge of people's spiritual journey, we are often looked upon as being the ones who know everything, or who achieved everything, and nothing is further from the truth. We’re as human and is frail as anyone in our communities, and when we accept that, and when we are honest about that, then there is the gift of being a true minister. Someone who brings hope, someone who brings peace. And we ask this in Jesus’ name, Amen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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1 PRI Reflections on Scripture | Wednesday of the 7th Week in Ordinary Time 5:48
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Gospel Mark 9:38-40 John said to Jesus, "Teacher, we saw someone driving out demons in your name, and we tried to prevent him because he does not follow us." Jesus replied, "Do not prevent him. There is no one who performs a mighty deed in my name who can at the same time speak ill of me. For whoever is not against us is for us.” Reflection It's hard for me to believe that for the first 27 years of my life, I believed that the Holy Roman Catholic Church was the only church that could bring somebody salvation. I wonder how that kind of teaching was so prevalent for so long, until Vatican Council blew it apart and talked about one very beautiful thing. Any community of people who turn to God and seek his truth is a means of salvation. It's not membership in a domination that saves us. It's whether or not we're open to what is true, who God really is, and what we're really here for. I ask you to take a few moments to reflect upon the images, these stories. And then I will close with a prayer. Closing Prayer Father, you called us into a community much bigger than our religion, our circle of friends and family, our country. We are called to be a part of your work throughout the world. Bless us with the ability to embrace all who seek the truth. And we ask this in Jesus’ name, Amen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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1 PRI Reflections on Scripture | Tuesday of the 7th Week in Ordinary Time 7:04
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Gospel Mark 9:30-37 Jesus and his disciples left from there and began a journey through Galilee, but he did not wish anyone to know about it. He was teaching his disciples and telling them, "The Son of Man is to be handed over to men and they will kill him, and three days after his death the Son of Man will rise." But they did not understand the saying, and they were afraid to question him. They came to Capernaum and, once inside the house, he began to ask them, "What were you arguing about on the way?" But they remained silent. For they had been discussing among themselves on the way who was the greatest. Then he sat down, called the Twelve, and said to them, "If anyone wishes to be first, he shall be the last of all and the servant of all." Taking a child, he placed it in their midst, and putting his arms around it, he said to them, "Whoever receives one child such as this in my name, receives me; and whoever receives me, receives not me but the One who sent me.” Reflection It seems clear to me that when Jesus reveals the way he is going to conquer evil, by giving into it and then rising. They have no idea of what he's really talking about. They do not realize that one has to die before one can truly live. But they're on a journey to discover it. And one of the things he's pointing out here is that anything in you that is caught up in a position of power over people is not the kingdom of God. And so he does something very unusual. He just said, look, he takes a child and puts his arms around it and said, you must become little, not so powerful, just valuable. That's what I want you to feel. You're valuable, but you're not greater than anyone else. Closing Prayer Father, it's part of our human nature to want to perfect who we are and to do good things and important things. And yet, if we're not careful, we get caught up in something where we are going to determine that we are better than others, more capable of doing what we need to do. The disciples were very much into that as they discussed who was the greatest, and what Jesus really saying is, anyone who accepts who they are as they are at this moment, that's the greatest in the Kingdom. So bless us with that kind of humility, Lord. And we ask this in Jesus’ name, Amen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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1 PRI Reflections on Scripture | Monday of the 7th Week in Ordinary Time 8:00
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Gospel Mark 9:14-29 As Jesus came down from the mountain with Peter, James, John and approached the other disciples, they saw a large crowd around them and scribes arguing with them. Immediately on seeing him, the whole crowd was utterly amazed. They ran up to him and greeted him. He asked them, “What are you arguing about with them?” Someone from the crowd answered him, “Teacher, I have brought to you my son possessed by a mute spirit. Wherever it seizes him, it throws him down; he foams at the mouth, grinds his teeth, and becomes rigid. I asked your disciples to drive it out, but they were unable to do so.” He said to them in reply, “O faithless generation, how long will I be with you? How long will I endure you? Bring him to me.” They brought the boy to him. And when he saw him, the spirit immediately threw the boy into convulsions. As he fell to the ground, he began to roll around and foam at the mouth. Then he questioned his father, “How long has this been happening to him?” He replied, “Since childhood. It has often thrown him into fire and into water to kill him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.” Jesus said to him, “‘If you can!’ Everything is possible to one who has faith.” Then the boy’s father cried out, “I do believe, help my unbelief!” Jesus, on seeing a crowd rapidly gathering, rebuked the unclean spirit and said to it, “Mute and deaf spirit, I command you: come out of him and never enter him again!” Shouting and throwing the boy into convulsions, it came out. He became like a corpse, which caused many to say, “He is dead!” But Jesus took him by the hand, raised him, and he stood up. When he entered the house, his disciples asked him in private, “Why could we not drive the spirit out?” He said to them, “This kind can only come out through prayer.” Reflection Jesus came into the world to destroy the power of evil. And it’s clear to us that when we see the power of evil infecting, being a part of someone like a child, and we see the destructive nature of evil, we are reminded of how dangerous evil can be to us. And what Jesus is saying here is so clear. If you think that you are vulnerable to evil, which is true, but you must also at the same time believe that I have power over evil, and I will protect you. I will heal you. I will free you. Nothing is more important than believing that evil has no real power to destroy us. That's a promise from God earned by his death on the cross. And for us to doubt it, we put ourselves in a very vulnerable place. Without trust in God, evil does have power over us. Closing Prayer Father, fear is a real problem for all of us. It robs us of peace. And to fear that things are going wrong, and everything is bad, or that the evil is taking over, is a dangerous place to be. There is no reason for us to fear evil because of the love of God poured into us, healing us, transforming us, and bringing us into a kingdom of peace. And we ask this in Jesus’ name, Amen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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1 HOMILY * The Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time 27:27
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1 PRI Reflections on Scripture | Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter, Apostle 6:41
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Gospel Matthew 16:13-19 When Jesus went into the region of Caesarea Philippi he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?” They replied, “Some say John the Baptist, others Elijah, still others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Simon Peter said in reply, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” Jesus said to him in reply, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah. For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my heavenly Father. And so I say to you, you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys to the Kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.” Reflection Throughout this week we've been listening, especially in Mark's Gospel, the difficulty people had in understanding who Jesus is. And they didn't read the signs properly. They didn't ask the right questions. But here we see the most amazing, simple answer to this dilemma of human beings not being able to recognize the Christ. It has to be revealed to you. It has to be given to you. It's the image of faith. Faith is not something that you do and earn something through that. But faith is a gift you receive and surrender to. Take a few moments to reflect upon these images, and then I will close with the prayer. Closing Prayer Father, no matter how long we work to study something like scripture and try to interpret it over and over again, what we are really doing by reading these stories is not getting the clear answers that we want. But learning about a story of a God who slowly revealed the truth to his people. And it was his gift to them. It was the gift of the Holy Spirit to them that changed them. We pray for this gift. And we ask this in Jesus’ name, Amen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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1 PRI Reflections on Scripture | Friday of the 6th Week in Ordinary Time 6:24
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Gospel Mark 8:34—9:1 Jesus summoned the crowd with his disciples and said to them, "Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and that of the Gospel will save it. What profit is there for one to gain the whole world and forfeit his life? What could one give in exchange for his life? Whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this faithless and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of when he comes in his Father's glory with the holy angels." He also said to them, "Amen, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see that the Kingdom of God has come in power.” Reflection Jesus in this passage is teaching his disciples a core issue. At the heart of what Jesus came into the world to proclaim is redemption, which is an act of love, for the truth, for the kingdom. Even though it asks you to let go of previous ways of seeing things, let those die and let something new be born inside of you. That's what Jesus wants his disciples to do, and he realizes how hard it is to understand that until they see the Son of God risen in front of them, and then they will believe. Take a few moments to reflect upon these images, and then I will close with a prayer. Closing Prayer Father, as often as we hear words that call us into a new way of life. The process of dying and rising is not easy. It never will be easy, and it never is finished. We always evolve and grow in our understanding if we're willing to see through the things that we thought were true for the truth. Bless us with this gift. And we ask this in Jesus’ name, Amen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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1 PRI Reflections on Scripture | Thursday of the 6th Week in Ordinary Time 7:21
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Gospel Mark 8:27-33 Jesus and his disciples set out for the villages of Caesarea Philippi. Along the way he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that I am?” They said in reply, “John the Baptist, others Elijah, still others one of the prophets.” And he asked them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter said to him in reply, “You are the Christ.” Then he warned them not to tell anyone about him. He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer greatly and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and rise after three days. He spoke this openly. Then Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. At this he turned around and, looking at his disciples, rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind me, Satan. You are thinking not as God does, but as human beings do.” Reflection To know someone's name is one thing. But to know who they really are, to know their heart, to know their purpose in life is quite different. And here we see Peter with the correct answer as to who Christ really is. He is the anointed one, the one that was promised, the one that will redeem the world and destroy sin. So when he begins to tell them for the first time, that he's going to go through something very difficult for them to understand. And he says the words so clearly, listen, I have to die, and I'll come back in three days. And Peter looks at him, unaware of what is spoken in Scripture and says, this is awful. This is terrible. This can't happen. And then Jesus reminds him, you think as humans think, but one day you'll think as God thinks, and you'll know me and experience me in your hearts. Closing Prayer Father, I wonder often how many times you made yourself so clear about teachings, and yet we still as human beings have a hard time understanding because we really don't know the God you are. We have so many misconceptions of who you are as a divine being. And so the things that you say we don't understand because we don't know you. Open our hearts, our minds, so we can really see you God, as you are. Incarnate in Jesus, longing to be the source of life for every single one of us. And we ask this in Jesus’ name, Amen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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1 PRI Reflections on Scripture | Wednesday of the 6th Week in Ordinary Time 6:53
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Gospel Mark 8:22-26 When Jesus and his disciples arrived at Bethsaida, people brought to him a blind man and begged Jesus to touch him. He took the blind man by the hand and led him outside the village. Putting spittle on his eyes he laid his hands on the man and asked, “Do you see anything?” Looking up the man replied, “I see people looking like trees and walking.” Then he laid hands on the man’s eyes a second time and he saw clearly; his sight was restored and he could see everything distinctly. Then he sent him home and said, “Do not even go into the village.” Reflection If you look at the miracles that are recorded in Scripture. Realizing there were many more that happened. But the majority of the healings in the Scripture are about healing people's vision. He wants us to see, and we've been spending time in Mark these days by looking at him constantly, wanting so much for the people that he's talking to, working with, longing to heal. He wants them to understand, and that is a way of seeing, not just looking, but seeing what's real. And I love the fact that he does this miracle just for the benefit of this man, not for the crowd, not to prove anything. He takes him by the hand to a private place, does the miracle for him, and then gives him the most poignant advice. You can't go back to where you were. Don't even go into the village. What you have seen, they will not understand. What you now know, they will not accept. Closing Prayer Father, you have a message for everyone. And there are times when you spoke with 500 or, look at all the people that you fed bread, the 4000, the 5000. But this passage so clearly talks about the intimacy between ourselves and God. God living in the flesh in Jesus doing intimate things for us, private things for us. So bless us with an awareness and openness to the mysterious ways in which you converse, that you touch our lives, and you radically change us. And we ask this in Jesus’ name, Amen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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1 PRI Reflections on Scripture | Tuesday of the 6th Week in Ordinary Time 7:16
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Gospel Mark 8:14-21 The disciples had forgotten to bring bread, and they had only one loaf with them in the boat. Jesus enjoined them, “Watch out, guard against the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.” They concluded among themselves that it was because they had no bread. When he became aware of this he said to them, “Why do you conclude that it is because you have no bread? Do you not yet understand or comprehend? Are your hearts hardened? Do you have eyes and not see, ears and not hear? And do you not remember, when I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many wicker baskets full of fragments you picked up?” They answered him, “Twelve.” “When I broke the seven loaves for the four thousand, how many full baskets of fragments did you pick up?” They answered him, “Seven.” He said to them, “Do you still not understand?” Reflection When the topic of bread comes up. Jesus reminded, and I'm sure he worried and thought often about, do these men understand these signs? It's so difficult for them to grasp what it really means. Yes, it was miraculous. But every sign has a message, a truth, something they need to open their hearts to. And so when he says very clearly, be careful your hearts are hardened, just like the Pharisees and the scribes. And he longs for them to open their hearts and receive the message that is in these images. But what you realize is they did not grasp these things until the Holy Spirit filled them. And the words that he ends this passage with are so poignant. Do you still not understand? Closing Prayer Father, you did not cease to create signs, that would be ways of your truth entering into our imaginations. You continue to do it today. And the question that Jesus poses to his disciples is also posed to us. Are we open to the mysterious ways in which God is working in your life? Are you aware of the things that are happening around you? That if you truly understand them, you will learn more and more about the will of the father who invites His Son to establish the Kingdom of God on this planet? Open our hearts. Let us ponder and wonder and find truth. And we ask this in Jesus’ name, Amen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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1 PRI Reflections on Scripture | Monday of the 6th Week in Ordinary Time 5:45
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Gospel Mark 8:11-13 The Pharisees came forward and began to argue with Jesus, seeking from him a sign from heaven to test him. He sighed from the depth of his spirit and said, “Why does this generation seek a sign? Amen, I say to you, no sign will be given to this generation.” Then he left them, got into the boat again, and went off to the other shore. Reflection Jesus seldom walked away from people, but in this case what we see is he's aware so much that the Pharisees, who are the fruit of the work of the temple, have really not paid attention to Scripture. And even though Jesus has been referenced so often in the Old Testament, they seem clueless to who he really is. They keep saying, in a way, who are you? Who are you? Jesus then seems to be somewhat irritated. How can you say to me, who have fulfilled so many things that are written in Scripture, that you don't know who I am? Closing Prayer Father, deepen our conviction in your words that we have so beautifully stated in the New Testament. Remove from us any misconceptions that we might have from those who have not understood who you are and have preached a different message. Give us the openness to truly see you, know you, and believe in you. And we ask this in Jesus’ name, Amen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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1 HOMILY • The Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time 26:53
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1 PRI Reflections on Scripture | Saturday of the 5th Week in Ordinary Time 6:34
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Gospel Mark 8:1-10 In those days when there again was a great crowd without anything to eat, Jesus summoned the disciples and said, "My heart is moved with pity for the crowd, because they have been with me now for three days and have nothing to eat. If I send them away hungry to their homes, they will collapse on the way, and some of them have come a great distance." His disciples answered him, "Where can anyone get enough bread to satisfy them here in this deserted place?" Still he asked them, "How many loaves do you have?" They replied, "Seven." He ordered the crowd to sit down on the ground. Then, taking the seven loaves he gave thanks, broke them, and gave them to his disciples to distribute, and they distributed them to the crowd. They also had a few fish. He said the blessing over them and ordered them distributed also. They ate and were satisfied. They picked up the fragments left over–seven baskets. There were about four thousand people. He dismissed the crowd and got into the boat with his disciples and came to the region of Dalmanutha. Reflection This is the only miracle that appears in all four of the Gospels, so they saw it as very important. And there's a simplicity to it that I think is so interesting about worship. It is pondering who God really is in Jesus. It's listening to this story over and over and over again, and then knowing that to be able to live this story, we don't do it out of our own strength. We do it filled with the Spirit of God. The Holy Spirit dwells within us, the same incarnate spirit that was in Jesus. And were told to go and share it. Because we've been fed. Closing Prayer Father, you are the one who shares with us the truth. But we must remember always. You also empower us to teach this truth by living it, by understanding it, by becoming it incarnate. Just as Jesus was incarnate divinity. Bless us with his wisdom. And we ask this in Jesus’ name, Amen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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1 PRI Reflections on Scripture | Memorial of Saints Cyril, Monk, and Methodius, Bishop 6:30
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Gospel Mark 7:31-37 Jesus left the district of Tyre and went by way of Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, into the district of the Decapolis. And people brought to him a deaf man who had a speech impediment and begged him to lay his hand on him. He took him off by himself away from the crowd. He put his finger into the man’s ears and, spitting, touched his tongue; then he looked up to heaven and groaned, and said to him, “Ephphatha!” (that is, “Be opened!”) And immediately the man’s ears were opened, his speech impediment was removed, and he spoke plainly. He ordered them not to tell anyone. But the more he ordered them not to, the more they proclaimed it. They were exceedingly astonished and they said, “He has done all things well. He makes the deaf hear and the mute speak.” Reflection People were changed when Jesus healed their body of some infirmity. They were never the same. And it seems that if we take this particular miracle and look at it carefully, it implies that there has to be some kind of awakening of something new, something different, in order for anyone to speak about it, to teach it. The miracles of Jesus, even the fact that they were what they were, was something that changed a person deeply, and they couldn't not speak about it. Even though he often said, don't tell anyone about this, they still couldn't keep it silent. To be touched by God, in a sense, is to teach who God really is. Closing Prayer Father, there's something in all of us that longs for the gifts of God that comes through Jesus. And the joy of being able to proclaim it is a great responsibility and a great source of joy. So give us the wisdom to know how to speak, how to teach, how to open people up to this marvelous healing power that is our inheritance. And we ask this in Jesus’ name, Amen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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1 PRI Reflections on Scripture | Thursday of the 5th Week in Ordinary Time 6:28
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Gospel Mark 7:24-30 Jesus went to the district of Tyre. He entered a house and wanted no one to know about it, but he could not escape notice. Soon a woman whose daughter had an unclean spirit heard about him. She came and fell at his feet. The woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by birth, and she begged him to drive the demon out of her daughter. He said to her, "Let the children be fed first. For it is not right to take the food of the children and throw it to the dogs." She replied and said to him, "Lord, even the dogs under the table eat the children's scraps." Then he said to her, "For saying this, you may go. The demon has gone out of your daughter." When the woman went home, she found the child lying in bed and the demon gone. Reflection This story underscores the confusion, and in a way, the anger of the Pharisees and scribes, because everything was only for the Jews. And here we see Jesus open and receptive to someone who was not a part of the community. And so he makes a clear statement that his major role is to save the Jewish people. But at the same time, this story foreshadows the fact that ultimately he will say to every man, to every woman, he longs for their healing. He longs for their transformation. There is nothing in Jesus that limits his ability to heal and to save those who come to him. Closing Prayer Father, we sometimes always focus on the inner circle we have, the friends that we have. We feel an obligation to be with them, but we sometimes don't show the same love for the stranger, the outcast. Help us to do better. Help us to see in every man and every woman the goodness that you've created there. Help us to always be ready to offer the gifts of your Kingdom to anyone and everyone we meet. And we ask this in Jesus’ name, Amen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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1 PRI Reflections on Scripture | Wednesday of the 5th Week in Ordinary Time 7:01
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Gospel Mark 7:14-23 Jesus summoned the crowd again and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand. Nothing that enters one from outside can defile that person; but the things that come out from within are what defile.” When he got home away from the crowd his disciples questioned him about the parable. He said to them, “Are even you likewise without understanding? Do you not realize that everything that goes into a person from outside cannot defile, since it enters not the heart but the stomach and passes out into the latrine?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.) “But what comes out of the man, that is what defiles him. From within the man, from his heart, come evil thoughts, unchastity, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, licentiousness, envy, blasphemy, arrogance, folly. All these evils come from within and they defile.” Reflection If we go back to the Old Testament, there's a moment in God's relationship with the people that is always difficult to fully grasp, and that is when he wanted to destroy the entire world, everyone he wanted to destroy. And he did it out of the frustration of a situation he saw so clearly that in every man, every woman's heart, every child's heart was darkness. Evil. Now Jesus brings that same image into the New Testament, and he makes it clear what he's saying is that your heart is the key to being open to all that God longs to share with you. He dwells in your heart. He lives there. He purifies the heart, purifies your intention, and makes you more and more like Jesus Himself. Goodness, kindness, compassion. This is who we must become. This is who the promise of Jesus takes place in changing our hearts. Closing Prayer Father, we pray for those who have never been taught. Never been shown who they really are. Help us always to have compassion for them and long for them to see what they don't see, and not to fall into the trap of judgment and condemnation. Evil is real. It's stronger than we are. But God's grace, God's healing is stronger than anything. It's what we hope in, it’s what we trust in. And we ask this in Jesus’ name, Amen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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1 PRI Reflections on Scripture | Tuesday of the 5th Week in Ordinary Time 7:16
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Gospel Mark 7:1-13 When the Pharisees with some scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus, they observed that some of his disciples ate their meals with unclean, that is, unwashed, hands. (For the Pharisees and, in fact, all Jews, do not eat without carefully washing their hands, keeping the tradition of the elders. And on coming from the marketplace they do not eat without purifying themselves. And there are many other things that they have traditionally observed, the purification of cups and jugs and kettles and beds.) So the Pharisees and scribes questioned him, "Why do your disciples not follow the tradition of the elders but instead eat a meal with unclean hands?" He responded, "Well did Isaiah prophesy about you hypocrites, as it is written: This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me; in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines human precepts. You disregard God's commandment but cling to human tradition." He went on to say, "How well you have set aside the commandment of God in order to uphold your tradition! For Moses said, Honor your father and your mother, and Whoever curses father or mother shall die. Yet you say, 'If someone says to father or mother, "Any support you might have had from me is qorban"' (meaning, dedicated to God), you allow him to do nothing more for his father or mother. You nullify the word of God in favor of your tradition that you have handed on. And you do many such things.” Reflection There's always a shadow to everything. And the shadow of so many religions is that they put in the place of the core message of God, the message of forgiveness and compassion and healing for their practices. And the practices seem at times to take over and give them the permission to be judgmental, narrow minded, closed off. Nothing is more important in the Kingdom of God than compassion, understanding, grace. And these are not things that come across because you wash your hands or don't wash your hands. They come across only when a heart is touched by God and becomes like him. Closing Prayer Father, give us a mind and a heart that is open to what is truly essential. You've preached a message consistently of mercy, compassion, forgiveness. Yet at times, we put other things in place of those that keep us distance and judgmental and demanding. Help us to grow out of a religion that robs us of our freedom, and most especially, that might rob us of our peace. And we ask this in Jesus’ name, Amen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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1 PRI Reflections on Scripture | Memorial of Saint Scholastica, Virgin 5:57
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Gospel Mark 6:53-56 After making the crossing to the other side of the sea, Jesus and his disciples came to land at Gennesaret and tied up there. As they were leaving the boat, people immediately recognized him. They scurried about the surrounding country and began to bring in the sick on mats to wherever they heard he was. Whatever villages or towns or countryside he entered, they laid the sick in the marketplaces and begged him that they might touch only the tassel on his cloak; and as many as touched it were healed. Reflection Jesus came into the world to initiate the kingdom of God. It’s a kingdom free of evil, and the power of evil is shame and fear and anger, and it creates dis-ease. And so when he manifests his power to heal, he is really manifesting the kingdom that’s going to come and people are longing for it and yet don't even understand what it's about. But that's what Jesus came to reveal. And eventually we grow, even today in our consciousness of what this kingdom is really about. About wholeness, fullness, integrity. Closing Prayer Father, help us always to recognize in you this power to heal is a sign of the kingdom. And it always somehow comes across as something that is connected to love, to compassion, to understanding. Fill us with these gifts as we go about our day healing our brothers, our sisters from the shame, the fear, the anger that often keeps them outside the kingdom. And we ask this in Jesus’ name, Amen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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1 HOMILY • Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time 27:02
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1 PRI Reflections on Scripture | Saturday of the 4th Week in Ordinary Time 5:42
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Gospel Mark 6:30-34 The Apostles gathered together with Jesus and reported all they had done and taught. He said to them, "Come away by yourselves to a deserted place and rest a while." People were coming and going in great numbers, and they had no opportunity even to eat. So they went off in the boat by themselves to a deserted place. People saw them leaving and many came to know about it. They hastened there on foot from all the towns and arrived at the place before them. When Jesus disembarked and saw the vast crowd, his heart was moved with pity for them, for they were like sheep without a shepherd; and he began to teach them many things. Reflection This passage is a beautiful image of the New Kingdom, the Kingdom of God. A kingdom free of fear and shame, and a kingdom that often asks us to stop and to rest, and to know that even though our work is important, Jesus, God incarnate, dwells within us and continues to do the work for us. It's a beautiful image of the compassion of God, both for his ministers and for the people who are longing for his message. It's a new kingdom, a kingdom of love, a king of peace, free of fear. Closing Prayer So let us pray for the same compassion. And the same acceptance of the times that we need to rest. And we ask this in Jesus’ name, Amen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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1 PRI Reflections on Scripture | Friday of the 4th Week in Ordinary Time 8:03
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Gospel Mark 6:14-29 King Herod heard about Jesus, for his fame had become widespread, and people were saying, "John the Baptist has been raised from the dead; That is why mighty powers are at work in him." Others were saying, "He is Elijah"; still others, "He is a prophet like any of the prophets." But when Herod learned of it, he said, "It is John whom I beheaded. He has been raised up." Herod was the one who had John arrested and bound in prison on account of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip, whom he had married. John had said to Herod, "It is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife." Herodias harbored a grudge against him and wanted to kill him but was unable to do so. Herod feared John, knowing him to be a righteous and holy man, and kept him in custody. When he heard him speak he was very much perplexed, yet he liked to listen to him. Herodias had an opportunity one day when Herod, on his birthday, gave a banquet for his courtiers, his military officers, and the leading men of Galilee. His own daughter came in and performed a dance that delighted Herod and his guests. The king said to the girl, "Ask of me whatever you wish and I will grant it to you." He even swore many things to her, "I will grant you whatever you ask of me, even to half of my kingdom." She went out and said to her mother, "What shall I ask for?" Her mother replied, "The head of John the Baptist." The girl hurried back to the king's presence and made her request, "I want you to give me at once on a platter the head of John the Baptist." The king was deeply distressed, but because of his oaths and the guests he did not wish to break his word to her. So he promptly dispatched an executioner with orders to bring back his head. He went off and beheaded him in the prison. He brought in the head on a platter and gave it to the girl. The girl in turn gave it to her mother. When his disciples heard about it, they came and took his body and laid it in a tomb. Reflection John the Baptist was considered to be the greatest of the Old Testament prophets. He was the cousin of Jesus, and they spent many hours together. But there was something fundamentally different about them. John the Baptist was very much part of what the Old Testament stood for, and that was obedience to rules and laws. Jesus, concerned about those things, was different. He was a man who was always speaking about grace, forgiveness, understanding. It's clear that the voice of John the Baptist was silenced when Jesus voice spoke on this planet. It's a beautiful image of a transition, of one voice ceasing to be the voice of God and God incarnate, becoming the new voice. Closing Prayer Father, it's not difficult for a situation to come up where we are always obligated simply to whatever the law requires. But we know, along with that kind of justice, there is also this mysterious thing called mercy. Fill us with the capacity to know how to deal with these situations. Yes, the law is important, but a spirit of love and understanding and compassion is also equally important. And we need to do both. And we ask this in Jesus’ name, Amen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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