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 146 total views Gospel Reading for February 19, 2025 – Mark 8: 22-26 MOVES US When Jesus and his disciples arrived at Bethsaida, people brought to him a blind man and begged Jesus to touch him. He took the blind man by the hand and led him outside the village. Putting spittle on his eyes he

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 146 total views Gospel Reading for February 18, 2025 – Mark 8: 14-21 CRITICAL THINKING The disciples had forgotten to bring bread, and they had only one loaf with them in the boat. Jesus enjoined them, “Watch out, guard against the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.” They concluded among themselves that it

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 146 total views Gospel Reading for February 17, 2025 – Mark 8: 11-13 EFFORT IN FUTILITY The Pharisees came forward and began to argue with Jesus, seeking from him a sign from heaven to test him. He sighed from the depth of his spirit and said, “Why does this generation seek a sign? Amen, I say

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 540 total views Gospel Reading for February 16, 2025 – Luke 6: 17, 20-26 TEMPORARY Jesus came down with the Twelve and stood on a stretch of level ground with a great crowd of his disciples and a large number of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the coastal region of Tyre and Sidon.

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 540 total views Gospel Reading for February 15, 2025 – Mark 8: 1-10 TRUE CHRISTIANS In those days when there again was a great crowd without anything to eat, Jesus summoned the disciples and said, “My heart is moved with pity for the crowd, because they have been with me now for three days and have

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 821 total views Gospel Reading for February 14, 2025 – Mark 7: 31-37 EXTRA EFFORT Jesus left the district of Tyre and went by way of Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, into the district of the Decapolis. And people brought to him a deaf man who had a speech impediment and begged him to lay

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 998 total views Gospel Reading for February 13, 2025 – Mark 7: 24-30 HUMILITY Jesus went to the district of Tyre. He entered a house and wanted no one to know about it, but he could not escape notice. Soon a woman whose daughter had an unclean spirit heard about him. She came and fell at

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 1,157 total views Gospel Reading for February 12, 2025 – Mark 7: 14-23 SELFLESSNESS Jesus summoned the crowd again and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand. Nothing that enters one from outside can defile that person; but the things that come out from within are what defile.” When he got home away

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 1,262 total views Gospel Reading for February 11, 2025 – Mark 7: 1-13 MEANINGLESS When the Pharisees with some scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus, they observed that some of his disciples ate their meals with unclean, that is, unwashed, hands. (For the Pharisees and, in fact, all Jews, do not eat without

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 1,262 total views Gospel Reading for February 10, 2025 – Mark 6: 53-56 TRULY DEEP FAITH After making the crossing to the other side of the sea, Jesus and his disciples came to land at Gennesaret and tied up there. As they were leaving the boat, people immediately recognized him. They scurried about the surrounding country

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 1,260 total views Gospel Reading for February 09, 2025 – Luke 5: 1-11 NO ONE While the crowd was pressing in on Jesus and listening to the word of God, he was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret. He saw two boats there alongside the lake; the fishermen had disembarked and were washing their nets. Getting

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 1,261 total views Gospel Reading for February 8, 2025 – Mark 6: 30-34 SAFEST REFUGE The Apostles gathered together with Jesus and reported all they had done and taught. He said to them, “Come away by yourselves to a deserted place and rest a while.” People were coming and going in great numbers, and they had

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 1,765 total views Gospel Reading for February 7, 2025 – Mark 6: 14-29 COWARDICE King Herod heard about Jesus, for his fame had become widespread, and people were saying, “John the Baptist has been raised from the dead; That is why mighty powers are at work in him.” Others were saying, “He is Elijah”; still others,

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 1,765 total views Gospel Reading for February 6, 2025 – Mark 6: 7-13 “CHURCH’S WAY” Jesus summoned the Twelve and began to send them out two by two and gave them authority over unclean spirits. He instructed them to take nothing for the journey but a walking stick –no food, no sack, no money in their

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 1,765 total views Gospel Reading for February 05, 2025 – Mark 6: 1-6 SIZE OF OUR HEART Jesus departed from there and came to his native place, accompanied by his disciples. When the sabbath came he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were astonished. They said, “Where did this man get