Mary – The Magnificat, pt.1
How does your soul magnify the Lord? How does your spirit rejoice in God our Saviour? In what ways does God cast down the mighty and lift up the lowly in your life?
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Mary in Islam
Mary is mentioned by name more times in the Quran than in the Bible and she is the only woman mentioned by name in the Quran.
Mary – The Mother of God, pt.3
Fr. Gabriel brought out two points concerning the role of Mary. First, Mary always points to Jesus. The second point is to see Mary as the personification of the Church.
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Mary – The Mother of God, pt.2
Irenaeus says that Mary is the new Eve. Just as Eve caused sin to enter the world, so Mary caused the salvation of humankind to enter the world.
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Mary – The Mother of God, pt.1
Mary is the “Theotokos” or the “god-bearer” and thus necessarily draws our attention to the full nature of Jesus as fully God and fully human united in a single person.
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The Gospel of Mark – Chapters 14-16
Mark’s Gospel ends with command “to go to Galilee.” This command is not so much an ending, as a beginning, and it is directed not only at the characters in the story but, more specifically, to us the readers of the story.
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The Gospel of Mark – Chapters 14-16
Mark’s presentation of the Last Supper brings to fruition the eschatology of the Hebrew Scriptures.
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The Gospel of Mark – Chapters 11-13, pt.2
Mark 13 is known as the “Little Apocalypse.” In this section , Mark draws heavily on the language and image from the Book of Daniel.
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The Gospel of Mark – Chapters 11-13, pt.1
Throughout the readings for this week, Mark relies heavily on the Psalms to tell us who Jesus is.
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The Gospel of Mark – Chapters 8:22-10:52, pt.4
The section ends with the healing of blind Bartemaeus who refers to Jesus as both “Son of David” and “Highest Master.” With these two titles, Jesus prepars to enter Jerusalem.
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