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New Wine

New Wine

In today’s Gospel Jesus comes preaching a new message, a message with authority, a message of love and forgiveness.  This new message, this new wine, cannot be contained in old wineskins: “no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the...
Authority to Forgive

Authority to Forgive

In today’s Gospel Mark continues to present Jesus as one with “authority.”  Jesus claims that as the Son of Man he has the “authority” to forgive sins and to heal.  The Gospel Story is a wonderful example of the community of faith.  When the paralytic’s friends lower...
Authority

Authority

What does it mean to teach with authority?  In today’s Gospel Mark emphasizes twice that Jesus teaches with authority.  “Jesus taught them as one having authority and not as the scribes…a new teaching with authority” (Mark 1:22, 27).  The people contrasted Jesus’...
Fulfilled in your hearing

Fulfilled in your hearing

Jesus preaches the shortest homily in history!  In today’s Gospel Jesus reads a text from the prophet Isaiah and then gives a homily on this text.  While His homily is very short it sets forth the mission that He will fulfill in the rest of the Gospel.  His homily is...
Faith and Love

Faith and Love

In today’s first reading John echoes Jesus’ twofold commandment of love of God and love of neighbor: “And his commandment is this: we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another just as he commanded us.”  John calls us to put our faith...