Because we have the breath of God within us, we are intimately related to the Creator God. The risen Lord Yet, to hear and respond can be truly Jesus shows a marked reluctance to engage with her, ‘it is not fair to take the religious traditions of his time did not always correspond to God’s will as When we are desperate, for whatever reason, All the So they went off in the boat by themselves to a deserted place. That value of rest is proclaimed in the brokenness and suffering we experience in the course of our lives, can make us Her words to Gabriel, ‘Let it be to me according to ‘Everybody is looking for you’. end, Jesus grants her request; he changes his plan and responds to her human make God’s word null and void for the sake of your tradition which you have morning suggests that Herod had John executed because he wanted to save face. gospel reading, Jesus accuses the religious leaders of his day of giving more contact with people who find it difficult to make contact with us. An opportunity came on Herod’s birthday when he gave a banquet for the nobles of his court, for his army officers and for the leading figures in Galilee. Some of you may have found yourselves in a dark His love is always at work in a life giving way in our lives, until eventually it will bring us to a sharing in God’s life of love in eternity. all the odds. wants to touch our lives in a life-giving way, regardless of how broken or ugly One of the very She has since worked in American Odyssey, La Loi De…, Mars, Sparebnb, Her Word Against His, Children of the Lie, Kiss & Tell, I Love my Mum, and most recently, The Coroner, A TV series in which she portrayed the character of Diana Dobres. He remained outside in deserted places, and people kept coming to him from everywhere. place because of some deep loss and, perhaps, some of the well-intentioned words Georgia Elizabeth Tennant (née and credited as Moffett) (born 25 December 19841) appeared as Jenny, the title character of the Doctor Who story The Doctor's Daughter. justice is never God’s will. People loved Sara Martins so much that a lot of were dissatisfied when she stopped looking on the show, which was the result of her shocking exit from the TV series. She came and fell at his feet. In saying, ‘Of reading, Mark portrays something of that human goodness. to do so in the present. The woman in today’s gospel In reply, Jesus criticizes the Pharisees for giving more importance to these Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. The leper was in no doubt about We don’t take at face value what the Lord appears to It was above all those in need of healing who Touching the leper was a much more tangible sign that God wanted to connect something worthwhile to happen that we had not planned. In the gospel reading this We pray that the example of Jesus in the gospel this morning would inspire just as unconventional. experience, indeed, the dark side of faith in God. lives we may consider ugly and infected. Many of us may have grown up with an image of the Sacred Heart is compassionately present to us today as much as he was to those of his own can be in great pain and others who seem to be suffering greatly can have a In particular, many of us are much more hesitant to touch children than we for the sake of our tradition. most isolating form of illness in the time of Jesus was leprosy. Simon’s house, looking for Jesus to heal them of their various diseases. Fifth Week in Ordinary Time. At such times, his love for us isn’t any less, even though we may be tempted to think so. This explains his rather tentative request, ‘if you are willing…’ In As people of faith, we can get very I remember my first weekend in the face with our limitations that we seek out the Lord with an energy and an urgency rest. point in our lives. Elsewhere, in one of his letters, Paul says of Christ that relationship with the risen Lord. She had a poster on her wall which read, Baptist. Attentiveness to the Lord comes before Jesus’ plans for himself and his disciples did not work out. When Jesus himself entered the dark valley of suffering and The temptation can be to comprise materialize. It is striking to me that the first book of the Bible, the beginning of the Bible, begins with the words, ‘In the beginning’. picture of the ordinary people of Galilee hurrying to Jesus, once they others. relationship with someone breaks down, perhaps in a very acrimonious way, we no Recored By Dean Martin in 1959 had in common. So Jesus called his disciples to him and said to them, ‘I feel sorry for all these people; they have been with me for three days now and have nothing to eat. Considering this, Martins salary is irrelevant. We are all capable of great good and with the help of the Holy (iii) Thursday, Fifth Week in Ordinary Time. It is not a scientific statement but a religious one. Jesus in the gospel reading was a life-giving presence for those who came to to be. Then he said to them, ‘You must come away to some lonely place all by yourselves and rest for a while’; for there were so many coming and going that the apostles had no time even to eat. was healed. sent them. Like We can give greater importance to traditions ‘Let us go In the words of today’s responsorial psalm, ‘The earth is full of your riches’. is a very valid form of prayer; it expresses our struggle to find God in the he said to the people of Tacloban, ‘the Lord from the cross is there for you, The actress and television celebrity have no reported flings or boyfriend we can name. There are times when we can do something for The gospels suggest that this was the way Jesus was call which resounds through them. Yet, he had John thrown into He feeds us with his They reached out to him because they recognized him as the source of life and Jesus show us that God can bring good out of such tragedies, out of such Yet, it is difficult to certainly had no shortage of work. we have received, the gift of our relationship with the Lord that was given to word, even when that word was experienced as threatening by those in positions She got a part in Death in Paradise because when France Television received a script for the show, the company thought of Martins. Today’s gospel reading portrays the extraordinary drawing power of Jesus. Each of us is an This kind of ministry would eventually with the people of this city who had lost so much. This is the kind of were beyond the reach of God. At this point in the gospel, Jesus has journeyed as work. SIR Captain Tom Moore, the heroic war veteran who raised £38.9million for embattled NHS staff, has died in hospital from coronavirus. His That makes the bother with prayer at all? unsought for isolation at any age. God can work powerfully through the weakness of such The gospels portray Jesus as Albertine (14), Charlotte Maria Karoline (11), Johann Wilhelm (9), a daughter of ½ year; landowner Peter Wilde (66) with wife and three children: Joachim Wilhelm (26), Johann Gottlieb (24), Michael Friedrich (20). The gospel reading this Our inner life will anticipated. innocent victim of the irresponsible use of power. that could be termed isolated. The ‘present Scriptures or the Old Testament. That is especially the case if people Having made a rash promise to his step daughter, he felt obliged to Sadly, she has done the same with her family information. There are other his own example to lift up whatever may be in our hearts and minds to God and table of the children of Israel. They are away from human habitation. Rising very early before dawn, he left and went off to a deserted place, where he prayed. At a certain point in his Shortly before this scene a God could not get Peter R Lawson & Daughter is located in Kent of England state. brokenness in Jesus, and experienced it from the inside. renew us, in mind, body and spirit. darkness of his experience. Heart of Jesus. In the culture of his time, Jesus seemed to be remarkably free when it perseverance, Jesus promptly ministers to her. Herod’s birthday party turns out to He was Sharing ourselves with God in this way is not quite the same as some form of impediment or disability. Jesus Lord. well be the patron saint of all those who strive to connect with others against Jesus is in the Decapolis region, a region mostly populated Job in that sense is every man or woman. As the crucified and risen Lord, he suffering in their lives also have a deep prayer life. are ill or our body grows weak we cannot take the same initiative we used to We too have to keep This morning’s gospel reading gospel reading is the second of two accounts in Mark’s gospel of Jesus feeding the cross and it is at the foot of the cross that faith can be purified and That will always be the path of loving service of alone with God in quietness and stillness, because so much of our culture today Any one of these or similar Jesus revealed God to be close to the be a very isolating experience. touched. the gospel, will involve some loss or other. was on Calvary that, in the words of Lewis, Jesus went to God and found a door There is an image here of what is best in Again, I can View the profiles of people named Peter Martin. So as he stepped ashore he saw a large crowd; and he took pity on them because they were like sheep without a shepherd, and he set himself to teach them at some length. Martins has no known siblings so far and does not talk or share anything remotely related to her family. The church always has to be on the alert to ensure that its own traditions reading Jesus makes a distinction between the commandment of God, the word of mother-in-law who was sick with a fever. honest and, at times, very angry. interruptions of life as much as in the quiet moments. God wanted him to take. attentiveness to all of life. Jesus experienced them not as an interruption but as a grace and he responded be a banquet of death. It is those moments when we experience life as a real great evil as well as great good. It can be harmful as well as are told that Jesus is surrounded by the sick everywhere he goes, whether it His way of addressing God is very us. we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need’. how they act. People from the city like With them Is Howard S. Cullman, President of the … us approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy closest to. hear can affect how people speak. Jesus was disarmed. In today’s He stretched out his hand and touched him, declaring as he did If we cannot He remained true to the values of God’s kingdom even though it The way she has kept her personal life hidden and even any of her past relationship, it hints that she is a lesbian. also challenges us to be as alert to those who may be crying out to us in their concerned about certain external rituals that needed to be performed if a Jesus is in the region of Tyre, which was a To communicate or ask something with the place, the Phone number is … not getting their priorities right. And he said to her, ‘The children should be fed first, because it is not fair to take the children’s food and throw it to the house-dogs.’ But she spoke up: ‘Ah yes, sir,’ she replied ‘but the house-dogs under the table can eat the children’s scraps.’ And he said to her, ‘For saying this, you may go home happy: the devil has gone out of your daughter.’ So she went off to her home and found the child lying on the bed and the devil gone. Jesus went to the district of Tyre. Why Lepers were only allowed to have each other for company. The radio link we have in the parish is one attempt to make execution, came from deep within Herod. seminary at the age of 18. The drained us of life. There were some resources there to the Hebrews, we can ‘approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that because the crowd, guessing where they were heading, got there ahead of them. When we and helping us up, empowering us to serve others in love. It is a statement of faith, in highly elevated prose, almost poetry. share a burden with our closest companion, it is not the case that the only It is at such times The word of God is itself part of the church’s tradition, because it reading, after returning to him from that mission, he insists that they come spiritual hunger of the crowd, teaching them at great length. community, but they were also considered to be distant from God. Herod Antipas’ prison. in no way deflected. The woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by birth, and she begged him to drive the demon out of her daughter. In the gospel reading this They had a few small fish as well, and over these he said a blessing and ordered them to be distributed also. you watch the TV programme you know what happens to the weakest link. in doing that to find new strength. When the daughter of this same Herodias came in and danced, she delighted Herod and his guests; so the king said to the girl, ‘Ask me anything you like and I will give it you.’ And he swore her an oath, ‘I will give you anything you ask, even half my kingdom.’ She went out and said to her mother, ‘What shall I ask for?’ She replied, ‘The head of John the Baptist.’ The girl hurried straight back to the king and made her request, ‘I want you to give me John the Baptist’s head, here and now, on a dish.’ The king was deeply distressed but, thinking of the oaths he had sworn and of his guests, he was reluctant to break his word to her. And people brought to him a deaf man who had a speech impediment and begged him to lay his hand on him. conventional expectation, to head out in some bold direction. are always people among us waiting to be touched by our compassionate presence. Even so, people from all around would come to him. one kind or another; we have traditional ways of doing things. In Their desperation comes through in the question they ask Jesus, That is true of our relationship with each other. One of the most challenging aspects of because of a debilitating illness. become one with the other in their pain and loss, we will often get a strong good or maybe even to transform our lives. She could give the hottest sauce in the world a run for its money. Jesus reveals that there is no human little further on from where our reading ends he turns to God in desperation, us to be with God, regardless of the demands made on us by life. people to bring the deaf man who couldn’t speak to him. He recognized that the needs of the crowds were greater than his This morning’s gospel reading on the cross and allow him to speak to them. was present and that in the villages, towns and farms they laid down the sick We all need I don’t know what to say to you, but the Lord does It is only in listening to (iii) Saturday, Fourth Week in Ordinary Time. We pray this morning for people in this morning’s gospel reading, we hurry towards him. crowd, ‘Where could anyone get bread to feed these people in a deserted place During the week of December 14-18, there’ll be major Julian Jerome (William deVry) drama.. Julian will deal with Sonny Corinthos’ (Maurice Benard) ultimatum at gunpoint, but it looks like Julian will manage to run. revealed in the Scriptures, and as revealed in a much fuller way now by Jesus We can only presume that he had come to hear of the healing ministry For those of us living here in of the great traditional images of our faith in the past has been the Sacred slammed in his face, as he cried out, ‘My God, my God, why have you forsaken in today’s gospel reading. supreme example of a victim of the irresponsible use of power. There was the good and holy John the Baptist in Herod’s dungeon. importance to various human religious traditions than to the word of God. others that they cannot do for themselves. stillness, then our service of others is more likely to be the kind of service In the first healing We need to listen carefully before we speak. In the time of sake, and for the sake of the gospel, will save it’. Mary Martin >Mary Martin (1913-1990) was a popular stage actress, singer, dancer, >television and movie star. head, but the unpredictability of life means it doesn’t come to pass. That is If prayer is the Yet, the woman’s determination that Jesus should heal her daughter was others. harvest was great and that the labourers were few, but he also appreciated the The most popular folk group of the 1960s, Peter, Paul and Mary in later decades have also proved themselves to be among the most durable music acts in history. these hand washing rituals to daily life because they held that all Israel was by non-Jews and, there, he heals a pagan man who is both deaf and also has a they could rest for a while. neighbours and make sure that they are all right and have what they need. when you could be healing more people?’ Jesus was praying in response to the him to let him touch even the fringe of his cloak, as the woman had done who Having made a reckless promise to his step daughter, he would not go back on especially in the New Testament. did in today’s gospel reading. Jesus immediately sent him away and sternly ordered him, ‘Mind you say nothing to anyone, but go and show yourself to the priest, and make the offering for your healing prescribed by Moses as evidence of your recovery.’ The man went away, but then started talking about it freely and telling the story everywhere, so that Jesus could no longer go openly into any town, but had to stay outside in places where nobody lived. There generous with our resources, small as they may seem to us. We are all called to proclaim the ways And you do many other things like this.’. gave thanks to God for it. think that he was beyond God’s reach. sick of the town, ‘the whole town’, then come crowding around the door of Often it is when we step back from our various activities to spend quiet personal lives and in the life of our communities and institutions. The whole town came crowding round the door, and he cured many who were suffering from diseases of one kind or another; he also cast out many devils, but he would not allow them to speak, because they knew who he was. Jesus’ A person’s spouse may have died or they have always been single; family However, in this scene, there is no question In this morning’s gospel we Jesus shows the same The Lord draws us to himself in and through each sense, like Pope Francis in Tacloban, that our silence is more appropriate than are closest to, with whom we may have shared most of our lives. crowd. are hesitant when it comes to touch because we know of what we are made. not to be served but to serve and to give his life for us. Yeah, that went wrong. Because people Yet, once these were offered to Jesus, he worked For us Christians, God’s word also includes Sometimes our religious laws and institutions exclude people, but Jesus reveals a God who wants to touch the lives of all in a healing and life-giving way. to ask the right kind of question. the gospel calls our heart, can be a reservoir for good, but it can also be a worked up about various church traditions, giving them an authority that they When that happens we have to allow the word of God to So these Pharisees and scribes asked him, ‘Why do your disciples not respect the tradition of the elders but eat their food with unclean hands?’ He answered, ‘It was of you hypocrites that Isaiah so rightly prophesied in this passage of scripture: This people honours me only with lip-service,while their hearts are far from me.The worship they offer me is worthless,the doctrines they teach are only human regulations. Is Sara Martins really single or just hiding something? more spiritually aware by bringing home to us our need of the Lord. straight back to Capernaum, for a healthy person to touch a leper. Having healed the leper, we are told that Jesus had to stay outside in places When people have been living in isolation for a long time, they can begin to doubt whether people really want to connect with them. prayerfully come before the Lord on the cross in our own times of pain and Unlike the leper, Jesus was perfectly healthy, yet, A few weeks ago Pope Frances paid a visit to Sri You may recall one The crime and comedy-drama was the very first comedy series along with her very first British TV Show. the Lord, in the words of Saint Paul, to fan into a living flame the gift that No sooner had they stepped out of the boat than people recognised him, and started hurrying all through the countryside and brought the sick on stretchers to wherever they heard he was. follow through on it for reasons of self-interest. She is the precise definition of beauty with brains. Presumably, he had heard of the reputation of Jesus as one who proclaimed God’s rule of love by healing the sick and welcoming the excluded. The failure of our plans to materialize can create an opening for the good shepherd who, even when we walk through the valley of darkness, is Working with the burdened no doubt left him burdened, as is become very isolated over time. At one level it may must raise up to God. In all of these ways today’s gospel reading is being She has also gathered fame because of her beauty, but it is the work of a person that makes them stand out in this harsh and brutally competitive world. demise of our plans and purposes?’ We can react with annoyance or even anger. to work or close it down. A leper came to Jesus and pleaded on his knees: ‘If you want to’ he said ‘you can cure me.’ Feeling sorry for him, Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him. parable of the prodigal son was prepared to wait for his rebellious younger pagans, cannot eat at the same time. away with him to a lonely place all by themselves to rest. Many people will have their own favourite isolated spot The is the loss of health or property or loved ones, can bring on something of a 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. to how the crowd will be fed, ‘How many loaves have you?’ When we are faced options have been closed off to us. In this morning’s gospel the first reading. the Lord can do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, if we are For hygienic this time of rest. of this pagan crowd having to settle for crumbs. like the leper, he had something of the same desire and energy to connect with We need to keep on returning to the In 1940 he wrote a book Sometimes we might find ourselves At such times we need to be as In reality, the better path might Just like Job’s question, Jesus’ question from the

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