On faith, prayer, and the quiet journey of the spiritual life.
Today's Gospel presents us with a powerful moment in the ministry of Jesus. His mother and brothers arrive, standing outside and asking for him. The crowd alerts Jesus to their presence, but his response challenges our conventional understanding of family. "Who are my mother and my brothers?" ...
Read reflectionThere's something startling about today's Gospel reading. Jesus is teaching, surrounded by a crowd eager to hear his words, when someone interrupts: "Your mother and your brothers are outside looking for you." We m...
Read more →Today's Gospel presents us with a powerful confrontation between Jesus and the scribes from Jerusalem. Accused of being possessed by Beelzebul and casting out demons by the prince of demons, Jesus responds not with a...
Read more →Today's Gospel reading marks a pivotal moment in salvation history: the beginning of Jesus' public ministry in Galilee. After hearing of John the Baptist's arrest, Jesus withdraws to Galilee and settles in Capernaum,...
Read more →"Then he went home; and the crowd came together again, so that they could not even eat. And when his family heard it, they went out to seize him, for people were saying, 'He is beside himself.'" The Cost of Radical...
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