On faith, prayer, and the quiet journey of the spiritual life.
In today's gospel reading, we encounter a powerful moment of transformation. Jesus travels through the Decapolis region, and people bring him a man who is deaf and has a speech impediment. This encounter reveals something profound about how God works in our lives. A Personal Touch What strike...
Read reflectionThere is a moment in today's Gospel that should stop us in our tracks. A woman — a Syrophoenician, a foreigner, someone with no standing or claim — falls at the feet of Jesus and begs him to free her daughter from an...
Read more →In today's Gospel, Jesus gathers the crowd and delivers a teaching that must have startled many who heard it. He declares that nothing entering a person from outside can make them unclean. Instead, it is what comes f...
Read more →"Wherever he entered villages, towns, or countryside, 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." — Mark 6:56 ...
Read more →In today's Gospel, Jesus speaks directly to each one of us with words that are both a gift and a responsibility. He does not say we might become the salt of the earth or that we could one day be the light of the worl...
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