The Man with an Unclean Spirit
Reflection on the Gospel of the Tuesday Of The First Week In Ordinary Time Mark 1:21b-28 Jesus is relatively new in Capernaum. He is gathering small groups here and there and teaching them. Here scholars point out that Jesus like Lady Wisdom (Book of Wisdom) is going street to street, from house to house, trying […]
Jesus Calls the First Disciples
Reflection on the Gospel of the Monday Of The First Week In Ordinary Time Mark 1:14-20 Mark was the first to write the Gospel as he saw most persecutions in Rome and wanted to write down the important events of Jesus’ ministry, passion death and resurrection and his is the shortest Gospel. He wrote for […]
Ask Salvation Bible Cell – Baptism?
Q. What is meant by ‘Baptism of Repentance’? It is the baptism of cleansing. The individual would have to confess and repent for sins before receiving baptism. The use of water in the ritual signifies/symbolises the internal spiritual washing/cleansing of the individual. Q. Why did John the Baptist preach and perform the ‘Baptism of […]
The Baptism of Jesus
Reflection on the Gospel of the Sunday: The Baptism of the Lord Luke 3:15-16, 21-22 The Greek meaning of the word Baptism is ‘to immerse’. Well that literally means to immerse into the water. But why? It’s a symbolic act of holding one’s breath of life, basically dying under water only to emerge from the […]
Jesus and John the Baptist
Reflection on the Gospel of the Saturday After Epiphany John 3:22-30 Today’s Gospel passage talks about ministry life of John the Baptist and Jesus Christ. Both of them did their mission as per their call designed by God. Jesus started his mission publicly after the arrest of John the Baptist by king Herod. John the […]
Jesus Cleanses a Leper
Reflection on the Gospel of the Friday After Epiphany Luke 5:12-16 Continuing with the Theme of Epiphany Sunday, we see we are presented with an understanding. Jesus is the one who makes us clean! We are staying away from God because we have looked inward and looked with awkwardness what we have done to ourselves […]
Jesus Declares His Manifesto
Reflection on the Gospel of the Thursday After Epiphany Luke 4:14-22a Jesus began preaching and teaching in Nazareth in his home town; a small village of little or no importance. Jesus’ work and teachings showed the signs of God’s Spirit. The whole of Galilee and all the surrounding countryside praised and awaited for his word. […]
Jesus Walks on the Water
Reflection on the Gospel of the Wednesday After Epiphany Mark 6:45-52 Monday began with we reading of the starting of Jesus’s Ministry. Yesterday’s Gospel was of Jesus the Bread come down from Heaven. Today we read of Jesus the Lord of Creation. This is Epiphany Week and we are reflecting on Jesus the One True […]
Jesus Feeds Five Thousand
Reflection on the Gospel of the Tuesday After Epiphany Mark 6:34-44 There are many references that can be drawn from the idea of ‘food’ from the Gospels. But I would like to dwell on it being compared to God’s Word, and Jesus liken it to being our primary food, when he refutes the Devil in […]
Jesus Begins His Ministry in Galilee
Reflection on the Gospel of the Monday After Epiphany Matthew 4:12-17, 23-25 Mathew stresses on the focus of Jesus’ to start his ministry at the chosen time. Jesus does not waste any time after he returns from his 40 days of fasting and prayer and sending away Satan after being tempted thrice. Even the news […]