Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B 21st July 2024. Lectionary Readings: Jeremiah 23 v1-6; Psalm 23; Ephesians 2 v11-22; Mark 6 v30-34, 53-56. Meeting the needs of the people. Mark says, “When Jesus got out of the boat, he saw the large crowd that was like sheep without a shepherd. He felt sorry for…
Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B 14th July 2024. Lectionary Readings: Amos 7 v7-15; Psalm 85 v8-13; Ephesians 1 v3-14; Mark 6 v14-29. Measuring up to God’s standard of justice. Amos writes, ‘The lord showed me a vision of himself standing besides a wall and holding a string with a weight tied to…
Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B 7th July 2024. Lectionary Readings: Ezekiel 2 v1-5; Psalm 123; 2 Corinthians 12 v2-10; Mark 6 v1-13. Reading between the lines. In the first part of today’s gospel reading, Mark tells us that Jesus is in his home town of Nazareth. It is the Sabbath day and…
Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B 30th June 2024. Lectionary readings: Lamentations 3 v22-33; Psalm 30; 2 Corinthians 8 v7-15; Mark 5 v21-43. The flow of God’s love. At the beginning of Jesus’ ministry in Galilee, Luke records Jesus quoting from the book of the prophet Isaiah. ‘The Lord’s Spirit has come…
Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B 23rd June 2024 Lectionary Readings: Job 38 v1-11; Psalm 107 v1-3, 23-32; 2 Corinthians 6 v1-13; Mark 4 v35-41. Teacher, Lord, Master. Was the ‘Storm on the Lake’ incident a miracle or a teaching point, or both? The miracles recorded in the gospels seem to me to…
Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B 16th June 2024. Lectionary Readings: Ezekiel 17 v22-24; Psalm 92 v1-4, 12-15; 2 Corinthians 5 v6-17; Mark 4 v26-34. Seeds of the Kingdom? One way to begin thinking about Mark’s ‘seed’ stories is to ponder what Jesus meant by ‘The kingdom of God’ when he introduced these…
Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B 9th June 2024 Lectionary readings:Genesis 3 v8-15; Psalm 130; 2 Corinthians 4 v13-5v1; Mark 3 v20-35 The true source of the power to heal. People in ancient times lived in fear of demons, who they thought were responsible for a whole range of what we would call…
Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B 2nd June 2024. Lectionary Readings: Deuteronomy 5 v12-15; Psalm 81 v1-10; 2 Corinthians 4 v5-12; Mark 2 v23 – 3 v6. Radical interpretations. Mark tells of an encounter between Jesus and a group of Pharisees. The action takes place at a Jewish ‘meeting place’ in the region…
Trinity Sunday Year B 26th May 2024. Lectionary Readings: Isaiah 6 v1-8; Psalm 29; Romans 8 v12-17; John 3 v1-17. Transforming relationships The apostle Paul argues that “Only those people who are led by God’s Spirit are his children”. (Romans 8 v14). Paul goes on to suggest that the relationship between these children and…
Pentecost Sunday Year B 19th May 2024. Lectionary Readings: Acts 2 v1-21; Psalm 104 v24-34, 35b; Romans 8 v22-27; John 15 v26-27; John 16 v4b-15. The Spirit is here to help us become the people of God. Jesus said “I will send you the Spirit who comes from the Father and shows what is…