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At a particular time in our evolution, God chose to enter into our world and a story was born. It has been carefully written, proclaimed and pondered. It possesses the power to awaken a knowing that has always been in us…the ability to experience the God who is, and to know a love that exceeds all others. Msgr. Don was ordained a Catholic priest in 1967. His preaching ministry grew beyond his parish work, and in 1987 began a Sunday radio broadcast that ran for 36 years on WRR in Dallas, TX. He has never tired of pondering the story, and admits the God he knew at his ordination, has little in common with the God he has discovered.Pastoral Reflections institute is non-profit located in Dallas, TX dedicated to enriching your spiritual journey.
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At a particular time in our evolution, God chose to enter into our world and a story was born. It has been carefully written, proclaimed and pondered. It possesses the power to awaken a knowing that has always been in us…the ability to experience the God who is, and to know a love that exceeds all others. Msgr. Don was ordained a Catholic priest in 1967. His preaching ministry grew beyond his parish work, and in 1987 began a Sunday radio broadcast that ran for 36 years on WRR in Dallas, TX. He has never tired of pondering the story, and admits the God he knew at his ordination, has little in common with the God he has discovered.Pastoral Reflections institute is non-profit located in Dallas, TX dedicated to enriching your spiritual journey.
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×Gospel Mark 9:38-40 John said to Jesus, "Teacher, we saw someone driving out demons in your name, and we tried to prevent him because he does not follow us." Jesus replied, "Do not prevent him. There is no one who performs a mighty deed in my name who can at the same time speak ill of me. For whoever is not against us is for us.” Reflection It's hard for me to believe that for the first 27 years of my life, I believed that the Holy Roman Catholic Church was the only church that could bring somebody salvation. I wonder how that kind of teaching was so prevalent for so long, until Vatican Council blew it apart and talked about one very beautiful thing. Any community of people who turn to God and seek his truth is a means of salvation. It's not membership in a domination that saves us. It's whether or not we're open to what is true, who God really is, and what we're really here for. I ask you to take a few moments to reflect upon the images, these stories. And then I will close with a prayer. Closing Prayer Father, you called us into a community much bigger than our religion, our circle of friends and family, our country. We are called to be a part of your work throughout the world. Bless us with the ability to embrace all who seek the truth. And we ask this in Jesus’ name, Amen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
Gospel Mark 9:30-37 Jesus and his disciples left from there and began a journey through Galilee, but he did not wish anyone to know about it. He was teaching his disciples and telling them, "The Son of Man is to be handed over to men and they will kill him, and three days after his death the Son of Man will rise." But they did not understand the saying, and they were afraid to question him. They came to Capernaum and, once inside the house, he began to ask them, "What were you arguing about on the way?" But they remained silent. For they had been discussing among themselves on the way who was the greatest. Then he sat down, called the Twelve, and said to them, "If anyone wishes to be first, he shall be the last of all and the servant of all." Taking a child, he placed it in their midst, and putting his arms around it, he said to them, "Whoever receives one child such as this in my name, receives me; and whoever receives me, receives not me but the One who sent me.” Reflection It seems clear to me that when Jesus reveals the way he is going to conquer evil, by giving into it and then rising. They have no idea of what he's really talking about. They do not realize that one has to die before one can truly live. But they're on a journey to discover it. And one of the things he's pointing out here is that anything in you that is caught up in a position of power over people is not the kingdom of God. And so he does something very unusual. He just said, look, he takes a child and puts his arms around it and said, you must become little, not so powerful, just valuable. That's what I want you to feel. You're valuable, but you're not greater than anyone else. Closing Prayer Father, it's part of our human nature to want to perfect who we are and to do good things and important things. And yet, if we're not careful, we get caught up in something where we are going to determine that we are better than others, more capable of doing what we need to do. The disciples were very much into that as they discussed who was the greatest, and what Jesus really saying is, anyone who accepts who they are as they are at this moment, that's the greatest in the Kingdom. So bless us with that kind of humility, Lord. And we ask this in Jesus’ name, Amen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
Gospel Mark 9:14-29 As Jesus came down from the mountain with Peter, James, John and approached the other disciples, they saw a large crowd around them and scribes arguing with them. Immediately on seeing him, the whole crowd was utterly amazed. They ran up to him and greeted him. He asked them, “What are you arguing about with them?” Someone from the crowd answered him, “Teacher, I have brought to you my son possessed by a mute spirit. Wherever it seizes him, it throws him down; he foams at the mouth, grinds his teeth, and becomes rigid. I asked your disciples to drive it out, but they were unable to do so.” He said to them in reply, “O faithless generation, how long will I be with you? How long will I endure you? Bring him to me.” They brought the boy to him. And when he saw him, the spirit immediately threw the boy into convulsions. As he fell to the ground, he began to roll around and foam at the mouth. Then he questioned his father, “How long has this been happening to him?” He replied, “Since childhood. It has often thrown him into fire and into water to kill him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.” Jesus said to him, “‘If you can!’ Everything is possible to one who has faith.” Then the boy’s father cried out, “I do believe, help my unbelief!” Jesus, on seeing a crowd rapidly gathering, rebuked the unclean spirit and said to it, “Mute and deaf spirit, I command you: come out of him and never enter him again!” Shouting and throwing the boy into convulsions, it came out. He became like a corpse, which caused many to say, “He is dead!” But Jesus took him by the hand, raised him, and he stood up. When he entered the house, his disciples asked him in private, “Why could we not drive the spirit out?” He said to them, “This kind can only come out through prayer.” Reflection Jesus came into the world to destroy the power of evil. And it’s clear to us that when we see the power of evil infecting, being a part of someone like a child, and we see the destructive nature of evil, we are reminded of how dangerous evil can be to us. And what Jesus is saying here is so clear. If you think that you are vulnerable to evil, which is true, but you must also at the same time believe that I have power over evil, and I will protect you. I will heal you. I will free you. Nothing is more important than believing that evil has no real power to destroy us. That's a promise from God earned by his death on the cross. And for us to doubt it, we put ourselves in a very vulnerable place. Without trust in God, evil does have power over us. Closing Prayer Father, fear is a real problem for all of us. It robs us of peace. And to fear that things are going wrong, and everything is bad, or that the evil is taking over, is a dangerous place to be. There is no reason for us to fear evil because of the love of God poured into us, healing us, transforming us, and bringing us into a kingdom of peace. And we ask this in Jesus’ name, Amen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Gospel Matthew 16:13-19 When Jesus went into the region of Caesarea Philippi he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?” They replied, “Some say John the Baptist, others Elijah, still others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Simon Peter said in reply, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” Jesus said to him in reply, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah. For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my heavenly Father. And so I say to you, you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys to the Kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.” Reflection Throughout this week we've been listening, especially in Mark's Gospel, the difficulty people had in understanding who Jesus is. And they didn't read the signs properly. They didn't ask the right questions. But here we see the most amazing, simple answer to this dilemma of human beings not being able to recognize the Christ. It has to be revealed to you. It has to be given to you. It's the image of faith. Faith is not something that you do and earn something through that. But faith is a gift you receive and surrender to. Take a few moments to reflect upon these images, and then I will close with the prayer. Closing Prayer Father, no matter how long we work to study something like scripture and try to interpret it over and over again, what we are really doing by reading these stories is not getting the clear answers that we want. But learning about a story of a God who slowly revealed the truth to his people. And it was his gift to them. It was the gift of the Holy Spirit to them that changed them. We pray for this gift. And we ask this in Jesus’ name, Amen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
Gospel Mark 8:34—9:1 Jesus summoned the crowd with his disciples and said to them, "Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and that of the Gospel will save it. What profit is there for one to gain the whole world and forfeit his life? What could one give in exchange for his life? Whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this faithless and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of when he comes in his Father's glory with the holy angels." He also said to them, "Amen, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see that the Kingdom of God has come in power.” Reflection Jesus in this passage is teaching his disciples a core issue. At the heart of what Jesus came into the world to proclaim is redemption, which is an act of love, for the truth, for the kingdom. Even though it asks you to let go of previous ways of seeing things, let those die and let something new be born inside of you. That's what Jesus wants his disciples to do, and he realizes how hard it is to understand that until they see the Son of God risen in front of them, and then they will believe. Take a few moments to reflect upon these images, and then I will close with a prayer. Closing Prayer Father, as often as we hear words that call us into a new way of life. The process of dying and rising is not easy. It never will be easy, and it never is finished. We always evolve and grow in our understanding if we're willing to see through the things that we thought were true for the truth. Bless us with this gift. And we ask this in Jesus’ name, Amen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
Gospel Mark 8:27-33 Jesus and his disciples set out for the villages of Caesarea Philippi. Along the way he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that I am?” They said in reply, “John the Baptist, others Elijah, still others one of the prophets.” And he asked them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter said to him in reply, “You are the Christ.” Then he warned them not to tell anyone about him. He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer greatly and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and rise after three days. He spoke this openly. Then Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. At this he turned around and, looking at his disciples, rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind me, Satan. You are thinking not as God does, but as human beings do.” Reflection To know someone's name is one thing. But to know who they really are, to know their heart, to know their purpose in life is quite different. And here we see Peter with the correct answer as to who Christ really is. He is the anointed one, the one that was promised, the one that will redeem the world and destroy sin. So when he begins to tell them for the first time, that he's going to go through something very difficult for them to understand. And he says the words so clearly, listen, I have to die, and I'll come back in three days. And Peter looks at him, unaware of what is spoken in Scripture and says, this is awful. This is terrible. This can't happen. And then Jesus reminds him, you think as humans think, but one day you'll think as God thinks, and you'll know me and experience me in your hearts. Closing Prayer Father, I wonder often how many times you made yourself so clear about teachings, and yet we still as human beings have a hard time understanding because we really don't know the God you are. We have so many misconceptions of who you are as a divine being. And so the things that you say we don't understand because we don't know you. Open our hearts, our minds, so we can really see you God, as you are. Incarnate in Jesus, longing to be the source of life for every single one of us. And we ask this in Jesus’ name, Amen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
Gospel Mark 8:22-26 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 laid his hands on the man and asked, “Do you see anything?” Looking up the man replied, “I see people looking like trees and walking.” Then he laid hands on the man’s eyes a second time and he saw clearly; his sight was restored and he could see everything distinctly. Then he sent him home and said, “Do not even go into the village.” Reflection If you look at the miracles that are recorded in Scripture. Realizing there were many more that happened. But the majority of the healings in the Scripture are about healing people's vision. He wants us to see, and we've been spending time in Mark these days by looking at him constantly, wanting so much for the people that he's talking to, working with, longing to heal. He wants them to understand, and that is a way of seeing, not just looking, but seeing what's real. And I love the fact that he does this miracle just for the benefit of this man, not for the crowd, not to prove anything. He takes him by the hand to a private place, does the miracle for him, and then gives him the most poignant advice. You can't go back to where you were. Don't even go into the village. What you have seen, they will not understand. What you now know, they will not accept. Closing Prayer Father, you have a message for everyone. And there are times when you spoke with 500 or, look at all the people that you fed bread, the 4000, the 5000. But this passage so clearly talks about the intimacy between ourselves and God. God living in the flesh in Jesus doing intimate things for us, private things for us. So bless us with an awareness and openness to the mysterious ways in which you converse, that you touch our lives, and you radically change us. And we ask this in Jesus’ name, Amen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
Gospel Mark 8:14-21 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 was because they had no bread. When he became aware of this he said to them, “Why do you conclude that it is because you have no bread? Do you not yet understand or comprehend? Are your hearts hardened? Do you have eyes and not see, ears and not hear? And do you not remember, when I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many wicker baskets full of fragments you picked up?” They answered him, “Twelve.” “When I broke the seven loaves for the four thousand, how many full baskets of fragments did you pick up?” They answered him, “Seven.” He said to them, “Do you still not understand?” Reflection When the topic of bread comes up. Jesus reminded, and I'm sure he worried and thought often about, do these men understand these signs? It's so difficult for them to grasp what it really means. Yes, it was miraculous. But every sign has a message, a truth, something they need to open their hearts to. And so when he says very clearly, be careful your hearts are hardened, just like the Pharisees and the scribes. And he longs for them to open their hearts and receive the message that is in these images. But what you realize is they did not grasp these things until the Holy Spirit filled them. And the words that he ends this passage with are so poignant. Do you still not understand? Closing Prayer Father, you did not cease to create signs, that would be ways of your truth entering into our imaginations. You continue to do it today. And the question that Jesus poses to his disciples is also posed to us. Are we open to the mysterious ways in which God is working in your life? Are you aware of the things that are happening around you? That if you truly understand them, you will learn more and more about the will of the father who invites His Son to establish the Kingdom of God on this planet? Open our hearts. Let us ponder and wonder and find truth. And we ask this in Jesus’ name, Amen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
Gospel Mark 8:11-13 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 to you, no sign will be given to this generation.” Then he left them, got into the boat again, and went off to the other shore. Reflection Jesus seldom walked away from people, but in this case what we see is he's aware so much that the Pharisees, who are the fruit of the work of the temple, have really not paid attention to Scripture. And even though Jesus has been referenced so often in the Old Testament, they seem clueless to who he really is. They keep saying, in a way, who are you? Who are you? Jesus then seems to be somewhat irritated. How can you say to me, who have fulfilled so many things that are written in Scripture, that you don't know who I am? Closing Prayer Father, deepen our conviction in your words that we have so beautifully stated in the New Testament. Remove from us any misconceptions that we might have from those who have not understood who you are and have preached a different message. Give us the openness to truly see you, know you, and believe in you. And we ask this in Jesus’ name, Amen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Gospel Mark 8:1-10 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 nothing to eat. If I send them away hungry to their homes, they will collapse on the way, and some of them have come a great distance." His disciples answered him, "Where can anyone get enough bread to satisfy them here in this deserted place?" Still he asked them, "How many loaves do you have?" They replied, "Seven." He ordered the crowd to sit down on the ground. Then, taking the seven loaves he gave thanks, broke them, and gave them to his disciples to distribute, and they distributed them to the crowd. They also had a few fish. He said the blessing over them and ordered them distributed also. They ate and were satisfied. They picked up the fragments left over–seven baskets. There were about four thousand people. He dismissed the crowd and got into the boat with his disciples and came to the region of Dalmanutha. Reflection This is the only miracle that appears in all four of the Gospels, so they saw it as very important. And there's a simplicity to it that I think is so interesting about worship. It is pondering who God really is in Jesus. It's listening to this story over and over and over again, and then knowing that to be able to live this story, we don't do it out of our own strength. We do it filled with the Spirit of God. The Holy Spirit dwells within us, the same incarnate spirit that was in Jesus. And were told to go and share it. Because we've been fed. Closing Prayer Father, you are the one who shares with us the truth. But we must remember always. You also empower us to teach this truth by living it, by understanding it, by becoming it incarnate. Just as Jesus was incarnate divinity. Bless us with his wisdom. And we ask this in Jesus’ name, Amen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
Gospel Mark 7:31-37 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 his hand on him. He took him off by himself away from the crowd. He put his finger into the man’s ears and, spitting, touched his tongue; then he looked up to heaven and groaned, and said to him, “Ephphatha!” (that is, “Be opened!”) And immediately the man’s ears were opened, his speech impediment was removed, and he spoke plainly. He ordered them not to tell anyone. But the more he ordered them not to, the more they proclaimed it. They were exceedingly astonished and they said, “He has done all things well. He makes the deaf hear and the mute speak.” Reflection People were changed when Jesus healed their body of some infirmity. They were never the same. And it seems that if we take this particular miracle and look at it carefully, it implies that there has to be some kind of awakening of something new, something different, in order for anyone to speak about it, to teach it. The miracles of Jesus, even the fact that they were what they were, was something that changed a person deeply, and they couldn't not speak about it. Even though he often said, don't tell anyone about this, they still couldn't keep it silent. To be touched by God, in a sense, is to teach who God really is. Closing Prayer Father, there's something in all of us that longs for the gifts of God that comes through Jesus. And the joy of being able to proclaim it is a great responsibility and a great source of joy. So give us the wisdom to know how to speak, how to teach, how to open people up to this marvelous healing power that is our inheritance. And we ask this in Jesus’ name, Amen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
Gospel Mark 7:24-30 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 his feet. The woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by birth, and she begged him to drive the demon out of her daughter. He said to her, "Let the children be fed first. For it is not right to take the food of the children and throw it to the dogs." She replied and said to him, "Lord, even the dogs under the table eat the children's scraps." Then he said to her, "For saying this, you may go. The demon has gone out of your daughter." When the woman went home, she found the child lying in bed and the demon gone. Reflection This story underscores the confusion, and in a way, the anger of the Pharisees and scribes, because everything was only for the Jews. And here we see Jesus open and receptive to someone who was not a part of the community. And so he makes a clear statement that his major role is to save the Jewish people. But at the same time, this story foreshadows the fact that ultimately he will say to every man, to every woman, he longs for their healing. He longs for their transformation. There is nothing in Jesus that limits his ability to heal and to save those who come to him. Closing Prayer Father, we sometimes always focus on the inner circle we have, the friends that we have. We feel an obligation to be with them, but we sometimes don't show the same love for the stranger, the outcast. Help us to do better. Help us to see in every man and every woman the goodness that you've created there. Help us to always be ready to offer the gifts of your Kingdom to anyone and everyone we meet. And we ask this in Jesus’ name, Amen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
Gospel Mark 7:14-23 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 from the crowd his disciples questioned him about the parable. He said to them, “Are even you likewise without understanding? Do you not realize that everything that goes into a person from outside cannot defile, since it enters not the heart but the stomach and passes out into the latrine?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.) “But what comes out of the man, that is what defiles him. From within the man, from his heart, come evil thoughts, unchastity, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, licentiousness, envy, blasphemy, arrogance, folly. All these evils come from within and they defile.” Reflection If we go back to the Old Testament, there's a moment in God's relationship with the people that is always difficult to fully grasp, and that is when he wanted to destroy the entire world, everyone he wanted to destroy. And he did it out of the frustration of a situation he saw so clearly that in every man, every woman's heart, every child's heart was darkness. Evil. Now Jesus brings that same image into the New Testament, and he makes it clear what he's saying is that your heart is the key to being open to all that God longs to share with you. He dwells in your heart. He lives there. He purifies the heart, purifies your intention, and makes you more and more like Jesus Himself. Goodness, kindness, compassion. This is who we must become. This is who the promise of Jesus takes place in changing our hearts. Closing Prayer Father, we pray for those who have never been taught. Never been shown who they really are. Help us always to have compassion for them and long for them to see what they don't see, and not to fall into the trap of judgment and condemnation. Evil is real. It's stronger than we are. But God's grace, God's healing is stronger than anything. It's what we hope in, it’s what we trust in. And we ask this in Jesus’ name, Amen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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