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
4th Week-Feb 3-8: Reflections
Feb 3 Monday (St. Blasé (see page 2), St. Ansgar(https://www.franciscanmedia.org/saint-ansgar/) :
Mk 5: 1-20: 1 They came to the other side of the sea, to the
country of Gerasenes. 2 And when he had come out of the boat, there met him out
of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, 3 who lived among the tombs; and no
one could bind him anymore, even with a chain; 4 for he had often been bound
with fetters and chains, but the chains he wrenched apart, and the fetters he
broke in pieces; and no one had the strength to subdue him. 5 Night and day
among the tombs and on the mountains, he was always crying out, and bruising
himself with stones.
4 Sunday A - Blessed Are you ....
Gospel Text: Matthew 5:1-12
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Michel DeVerteuil
General comments
On this Sunday the “continuous reading” of St Matthew’s gospel (see last week’s “guidelines”) leads us to the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus’ long discourse which runs from chapters 5 to 7 and has always been recognised as a summary of all his teaching.
Jan 27- Feb 1: 3rd Week - Reflections
Jan 27 Monday (Angela Merici Virgin,
https://www.franciscanmedia.org/saint-angela-merici/ ): Mk
3:22-30: 22 And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, “He
is possessed by Beelzebul, and by the prince of demons he casts out the
demons.” 23 And he called them to him, and said to them in parables, “How can
Satan cast out Satan? 24 If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom
cannot stand. 25 And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not
be able to stand. 26 And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he
cannot stand, but is coming to an end. 27 But no one can enter a strong man’s
house and plunder his goods unless he first binds the strong man; then indeed
he may plunder his house.
Conversion of St. Paul: Reflection & Liturgy
Acts 22:3-16 or Acts 9:1-22 / Mark 16:15-18
Jesus
reveals himself to Paul: “I am Jesus, whom you persecute.”
We
sometimes hear people say, “I believe in God, and I believe in Jesus, but I
don’t believe in the Church.” When we hear people say this, we want to cry out:
“But there’s no Jesus apart from the Church. Ever since Pentecost, Jesus and
his Church have formed one body.” Trying to separate Jesus from the community
of his followers is like trying to separate one’s head from one’s body.
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