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“Whoever does the will of God is brother and sister and mother to me.” –Mark 3:35 Jesus said that He came for division, to divide a family three against two (Lk 12:52). He meant that some family members would receive Him while others would reject Him, at least for a time. For those who love Jesus, love their families, and yet have been rejected within their families because of their love for Jesus, there is great pain. Yet Jesus offers the greatest consolation amidst this pain: by doing the will of God, we are adopted and transplanted into the family...
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“Promote their knowledge of the truth as our religion embodies it.” –Titus 1:1 No matter how well or poorly I teach the Scriptures through this booklet, you can almost immediately at least double the insights you receive from reading the Scriptures for the daily Mass by deciding to share anything you receive. If you put any light you receive on the lampstand (Mk 4:21), you will receive more light. “In the measure you give you shall receive, and more besides” (Mk 4:24). Understanding the Bible is not so much a matter of intelligence, but of sharing. To share the good...
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“They immediately abandoned their nets and became His followers.” –Mark 1:18 When a fish is caught and taken out of the water, it dies. The former watery world that it knew “is passing away” (1 Cor 7:31). Similarly, everything changes when we enter into the kingdom of God. Living in God’s kingdom is as different from our pre-Christian life as it is for that fish trying to live on land. Lifestyles that worked underwater no longer work in fresh air. In order for the fish to live on land, it literally has to die to its old life. The fish...
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“When His family heard of this they came to take charge of Him, saying, ‘He is out of His mind.’ ” –Mark 3:21 Jesus’ relatives said He was out of His mind. Each of us will also be called “out of our minds.” Will this be because we are followers of Jesus or because our minds are conformed to the insanity of the world? (see Rm 12:2) We want to be able to say with St. Paul: “If we are ever caught up out of ourselves, God is the reason; and when we are brought back to our senses, it...
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“They were likewise to have authority to expel demons.” –Mark 3:15 Jesus created His Church and gave it the power to expel demons (Mk 3:15). Yesterday was the forty-second anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision to legalize abortion. We are authorized to be the Church Militant and drive out the demons of abortion. From the present state of affairs, however, the demons of abortion seem to have driven us out of power. Planned Parenthood and others who promote the abortion agenda must snicker at the seeming weakness of the Body of Christ. It’s a poor witness to the world...
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