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6th Week, Tuesday, Feb 18th - Reflection & Liturgy
James 1:12-18 / Mark 8:14-21
James talks about temptation: Temptation precedes sin.
In his book Voyage to Windward, J. C. Furnas includes a
thought-provoking story about Robert Louis Stevenson, author of the classic story Treasure
Island. In his youth, Stevenson was filled
with curiosity and superstition. In his late adolescense, he carried about on
his body a formula for summoning forth the devil. “What a strange thing to do!”
we say. What kind of person would do a thing like that? The truth is that we
all do things like this. We do it when we
place ourselves in a situation which we know has led us into temptation in the
past. This is what James warns us about in today’s reading.
6th Week, Monday: Feb 17th: Reflection & Liturgy
James
1:1-11 / Mark 8:11-13
James talks about death: Death
comes to all, rich and poor alike.
It’s
fascinating to note how People
magazine selects the people who will appear on its cover. The editors have an
unwritten law that young people are preferable to old people, TV stars are
preferable to movie stars, and athletes are preferable to politicians.
5th Week, Saturday, Feb 15th: Reflection & Liturgy
1 Kings 12:26-32; 13:33-34 / Mark 8:1-10
Jeroboam
fears tribal reunion: He thwarted worship in Jerusalem.
In
May 1915, the Germans sank the United States passenger ship the Lusitania. They
claimed it was carrying munitions to be used against them. United States
officials denied the charge. They went even further. They used the sinking of
the Lusitania to
mobilize public opinion to get the United States into World War I. Later it was
proven that the Lusitania
was carrying munitions, and that the United States officials knew it.
6th Sunday A - Liturgical prayers
Greeting
The Son of God proclaimed to you
was never Yes and No;
with him it was always Yes.
That is why it is through Christ
that we say our Yes to God.
May the Spirit of Jesus be always with you.
R/ And also with you.
5th Week, Friday: Feb 14th - Reflection & Liturgy
1 Kings 11:29-32; 12:19 / Mark 7:31-37
The twelve tribes split: Solomon’s sins
affected the people.
One of the most
critical battles in history was the Battle of Waterloo in Belgium in 1813. Had
the outcome of that battle been different, the history of the world may have
been quite different. At Waterloo,. England’s Duke of Wellington defeated
Napoleon and his French army.
5th Week, Thursday, Feb 13: Reflection & Liturgy
1 Kings 11:4-13 / Mark 7:24-30
Theodore
White makes a surprising observation in his book The
Mountain Road. He says that if you put a chunk of pure gold next
to a chunk of pure silver, something unusual and unexpected will happen. Invisible
flecks of silver will cross over and embed themselves in the gold. And specks
of the gold will cross over and embed themselves in the silver. What happens to
metal happens to people also. When people are put in close contact, parts of
their character and values cross over and embed themselves in the other. This
crossover can be for good or for evil.
5th Week, Wednesday: Feb 12th: Reflection & Liturgy
1 Kings 10:1-10 / Mark
7:14-23
The
Queen speaks about Solomon: “Your people are fortunate to have you.”
“Not
until I became a mother did I understand how much my mother sacrificed for me;
not until I became a mother did I understand how hurt my mother was when I
disobeyed; not until I became a mother did I understand how proud my mother was
when I achieved; not until I became a mother did I understand how much my
mother loved me.” Victoria Farnsworth.
5th Week: Feb 10-15: Reflections
Feb 10 Monday (St. Scholastica, Virgin)
Catholic Online Video:
https://youtu.be/D8DGB94UI3Y?list=PL58g24NgWPIzvBk2IQVES_xC4WTm6-CDI
Mk 6: 53-56: 53 And when they had crossed over, they came to land
at Gennesaret, and moored to the shore. 54 And when they got out of the boat,
immediately the people recognized him, 55 and ran about the whole neighborhood
and began to bring sick people on their pallets to any place where they heard
he was. 56 And wherever he came, in villages, cities, or country, they laid the
sick in the marketplaces, and besought him that they might touch even the
fringe of his garment; and as many as touched it were made well. USCCB
video reflections: https://youtu.be/SC3JYdFlZ9E?list=PLpTzvCOJa7DCtgpPT22G8NClHeoKpWu5Q
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