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July 2024

Volume 141, Issue #7

Lectionary

July 28, Ordinary 17B (2 Samuel 11:1–15)

It’s almost as if power and prestige somehow facilitate abusive patterns and protect perpetrators!

July 21, Ordinary 16B (Mark 6:30–34, 53–56)

An exhausted Jesus responds to the crowd with compassion. I think that’s a miracle.

July 14, Ordinary 15B (Mark 6:14–29)

Who knows what took place in Herod’s guilty heart after John’s death?

July 7, Ordinary 14B (Mark 6:1–13)

The disciples want to know who Jesus is. The people from his hometown do not.

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