16 SUNDAY B - Homilies & Prayers

XVI Sunday in Ordinary Time-July 22

 Gospel reading: Mark 6:30-34 

Michel DeVerteuil

Textual Comments  

Today's passage, like those of the last two Sundays, is an account of the ministry of Jesus and contains several messages that are important for us today. We can feel free to identify with one of the three characters in the story:  - Jesus,  - the apostles,  - the crowds.   

15 Sunday B- Several homilies-3

Homily from Father James Gilhooley

A pastor bankrupt his parish giving away wood to the poor to bring warmth to their homes in bitter winter. When he had no money left, he sold the rectory Chippendale dining room furniture for more wood. He was ridiculed by his peers for being a bad administrator. He was embraced by Christ on his death.

15 Sunday -B-Liturgy

15th Sunday in Ordinary Time (B)

 Greetings (see second reading)

God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ has chosen us in Christ to live in his presence and with him to carry out his plan of bringing everyone together under Christ. May the Lord's peace and grace be always with you. R/ And also with you.

15 Sunday - B- July 15-Homilies-2

15thSunday B

Introduction: Today’s readings remind us of our Divine Adoption as God's children and of our call to preach the good news of Jesus by bearing witness to God’s love, mercy and salvation as revealed through Jesus. "God chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world." (Ephesians 1: 4)

Scripture lessons: The first reading warns us that our witnessing mission will be rejected, as happened to the Old Testament prophets like Amos, He was ordered by Amaziah, the angry chief priest serving in the Northern Kingdom of Israel at Bethel, to take his prophesying back to his own country, the Southern Kingdom of Judah. Amos defended his prophetic role with courage, clarifying that it was not his choice but his God’s choice to elevate him from a shepherd and tree-dresser to a prophet. Like Amos, each one of us is chosen by God, through the mystery of divine adoption in Jesus, to become missionaries and to preach the “good news” by Christian witnessing.

15 SUNDAY B July 15 - Homilies & Prayers

Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Gospel reading: Mark 6:7-13

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Michel DeVerteuil
Lectio Divina with the Sunday Gospels
www.columba.ie
Textual Comments

This passage contains several separate sections. Each has an important message for us today.

1. Jesus summoned the Twelve.
He selected a group of people who he felt would be able to represent him before the world. He called them by name so that he could send them into the world not merely as a group, but as individuals.

14 Sunday B- 2-Several reflections

14th Sunday in Ordinary Time - Cycle B - Mark 6:1-6

Homily from Father James Gilhooley

The bishop asked the monsignor, "How was my homily?" The msgr: "You were brief." The bp: "I try never to be tiresome. The msgr: "You were tiresome too."

The nineteenth century English poet, Alfred Tennyson, wrote: "More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of." Was that a cute throwaway line or did Lord Tennyson know something we do not? The answer to our question is to be found in the prayer life of Jesus.

14 Sunday - B-July 8-Homilies

14 Sunday - B; Mk 6:1-6

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Introduction to the Celebration

When we assemble each week on Sunday, we are continuing an earlier tradition of God's people who met on Saturday – the Sabbath. For the Jews, the Sabbath was, and is, the day to rejoice in the goodness of God in creating the universe, and our human family. The first Christians moved the celebration to Sunday as this day was seen as the day of resurrection: God's great act of restoring and renewing the creation in Jesus.