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  Catch up on your readings day 

 Catch up on your readings day

  TEXT TO REFLECT When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices so that they might go to anoint Jesus’ body. 2 Very early on the first day of the week, just after sunrise, they were on their way to the tomb 3 and they asked each other, “Who will roll the stone away from the entrance of the tomb?” 4 But when they looked up, they saw that the stone, which was very large, had been rolled away. 5 As they entered the tomb, they saw a young man dressed in a white robe sitting on the right side, and they were alarmed. 6 “Don’t be alarmed,” he said. “You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid him. 7 But go, tell his disciples and Peter, ‘He is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him, just as he told you.’” MARK 16:1-7 REFLECT It had been a heart-rending two days for the three women, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome. They had witness...

Read Mark 15 No devotional today (Sunday)

Read: Mark 14 Verses chosen for reflection: Mark 14:3-9 "And while he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he was reclining at table, a woman came with an alabaster flask of ointment of pure nard, very costly, and she broke the flask and poured it over his head. 4 There were some who said to themselves indignantly, “Why was the ointment wasted like that? 5 For this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor.” And they scolded her. 6 But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a beautiful thing to me. 7 For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want, you can do good for them. But you will not always have me. 8 She has done what she could; she has anointed my body beforehand for burial. 9 And truly, I say to you, wherever the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will be told in memory of her.” Reflection: Conceptually, it was not wrong for the people to want to u...

READ : Mk.12.41 to 13.37 FOCUS : Mk.13.35-37 REFLECT :  Jesus gathers up all the intervening time between His first and second comings, and divides it into four watches—one long night of the world's sin—and He says,  You don't know (and, I think He implies,  I don't know  ) whether the coming is to be early in that time or in the middle of it, or three-quarters of the way through, or clearly at the end.   No one knows. I don't know; you don't know. But it is like a man going on a journey (here He likens it to His own going away) who gives his servants work to do, and he expects them to do it. He sets a doorkeeper to watch. What is he to watch for? Is he to watch for the master's return? That is the way this is usually interpreted. But that is not it, for he is to start watching as soon as the master leaves. He knows the master will not be back right away. What then is he to watch for? He is to watch so that no one can deceive him and gain entrance into the house...

READ : Mark 11:27-12:40 Verses chosen for meditation: Mark 12:13-17 13  And they sent to him some of the Pharisees and some of the Herodians, to trap him in his talk.  14  And they came and said to him, “Teacher, we know that you are true and do not care about anyone's opinion. For you are not swayed by appearances, but truly teach the way of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not? Should we pay them, or should we not?”  15  But, knowing their hypocrisy, he said to them, “Why put me to the test? Bring me a denarius and let me look at it.”  16  And they brought one. And he said to them, “Whose likeness and inscription is this?” They said to him, “Caesar's.”  17  Jesus said to them, “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.” And they marveled at him. REFLECT The Pharisees and the Herodians...