Reflections for

31st Sunday in Ordinary Time, Nov 01, 2015

Ruth 1:1-18; Psalm 146; (Deuteronomy 6:1-9; Psalm 119:1-8;) Hebrews 9:11-14; Mark 12:28-34

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May 19, 2011 by Bromleigh McCleneghan

My parents' marriage began with a betrayal. My maternal grandfather was in the army, so my mom's family moved around a lot. She was shy and introverted, and she struggled to make friends and establish roots. As an adult, all she wanted was a single place to call home.

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Another commandment

Hebrews 9:11-14; Mark 12:28-34

Oct 31, 2006 by Maria Teresa Palmer

I read this week’s lectionary passages last summer in the Urubamba Valley in my native Peru, and in my native Spanish: “Pero Cristo ya vino, y ahora el es el Sumo sacerdote . . .” At first I resisted the Hebrews passage, as I prefer Jesus’ concrete teachings to more abstract theological concepts. So, while leading a tour group across the Andes, I turned to Mark: “And man must love God with all his heart and with all his mind and with all his strength; and he must love his neighbor as he loves himself.”

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Extra credit

Sunday, November 5

Mark 12:28-34

Oct 25, 2000 by Robin Meyers

By the time we reach the 12th chapter of Mark, Jesus finds himself in the middle of a kind of theological cross-examination free-for-all. Priests, scribes, elders and other assorted defenders of the letter of the law are swarming all over him in a frenzy of entrapment.

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