Wednesday, February 12, 2025 Gen 2:4-9, 15-17; Mk 7:14-23 Today’s Gospel highlights the heart, not the body, as the realm of morality. When Jesus says that ‘nothing that enters one from outside can defile a person,’ he revokes the Old Testament laws dealing with ritual impurity and food. In simpler terms, Jesus means that food […]
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes Is 66:10-14; Jn 2:1-11 Today we celebrate the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes. Our Lady of Lourdes is a title given to the Blessed Virgin Mary, recalling her apparitions in 1958 at the grotto in Lourdes, France, to Saint Bernadette, a fourteen-year-old peasant girl.
Monday, February 10, 2025 Gen 1:1-19; Mk 6:53-56 Today’s Gospel highlights the image of Jesus the healer. People’s recognition of Jesus is so amazing that they run throughout the whole region to bring the sick on mats to ‘wherever they heard he was.’ The aura of goodness that people experienced in Jesus’ presence was so
