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11.01.2012 JESUS WENT ABOUT DOING GOOD

Posted under Reflections on January 24th, 2012 by

GOSPEL  READING  Mk 1: 29-39

 

 

Simon Peter’s mother-in-law waited on them after being healed by Jesus. Healing of a person from illness immediately leads that person to service. Indirectly the message that is communicated is that a person of wholeness or completeness should be available for service for the others.

 

Jesus who was completely whole was always available for service. He went about ding good to the others. People flocked to him and he was always with the people who need his service. However he did not restrict the service a place or expected the people to come to him. He went about to the people where the people were in need of his service.

10.01.2012 EVIL SPIRIT

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GOSPEL  READING  Mk 1: 21-28

 

 

Jesus’ teaching was different from the rest of the religious teachers, and preachers. The listeners found in his teaching something that was different. He taught them with authority. The others taught what they had learned from whereas Jesus taught from within. This is the indirect way of Mark telling that Jesus is the Word. Jesus spoke from his own experience of the Father for he had come to reveal the Father.

 

Even the evil spirits recognized him. In fact they recognize him first and even before he commands them to leave they approve of his authority and ask him not to disturb them. Through this the mission of Jesus is also revealed. That is, Jesus has come to reveal the Father and also to overcome the evil or to remove the evil form the lives of the people.

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