by Faith Central & Steve Welsh
From the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. [Click here for Mass Readings] Your browser does not support iframes. [featured image is file photo]
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“… The crowd recognizes that Jesus is doing what the prophet had foretold. But Mark wants us to see something far greater—that, to use the words from today’s First Reading: ‘Here is your God.’ …”
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In the Gospel of Mark, at 7:20 et seq., Jesus reminds us of some of the evils that we must avoid, reject and overcome: “[Jesus] said to [His Disciples], ‘… 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?”
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“Herod was the one who had John the Baptist arrested and bound in prison on account of Herodias … Herod feared John, knowing him to be a righteous and holy man … he liked to listen to him.” … “Lord, I love Your Commands” … “… my message … were not with persuasive words …but with a demonstration of spirit
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