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Weekly Gospel Reflection

“And Jesus said to them, ‘The chalice that I drink you will drink; and with the baptism with which I am baptized, you will be baptized...’ “ - Mark 10:39

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Weekly Gospel Reflection

Sunday's Gospel features one of my (Beth) favorite lines in Scripture. “I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief!”

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Weekly Gospel Reflection

Welcome to the 4th week of the Great Fast! How is Christ inviting us to walk more closely with Him through the desert, especially in this past Sunday’s Gospel?

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Weekly Gospel Reflection

Yesterday's Gospel reading features the healing of the paralytic. St. Mark writes that there were so many people crowded around Jesus to hear Him preach. So many people were crowded in a house, in all the rooms, in the hallway, out into the front door, out to the corridor surrounding the house. So many people that the paralytic man had to be lowered THROUGH THE ROOF! in order for Jesus to see him.

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Weekly Gospel Reflection

The Gospel reading from yesterday was Nathanael's and Jesus' encounter with each other, when Jesus tells Nathanael that He saw him under the fig tree.

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