14 February 2025 - Friday of the 5th ordinary week
1R 11, 29-32. 12, 19; Mk 7, 31-37
Homily
The Gospels rarely show us Jesus outside the territory of Israel. In the Gospel of Mark that we have been reading these days, Jesus went to the region of Tyre, north of the Lake of Galilee. It was a border region, with a mixed population, mostly of pagan origin. It was there that he had healed the daughter of the Syro-Phoenician woman. And at the beginning of today's text, we see him leave Tyre, go through Sidon towards the Lake of Galilee and go straight to pagan territory, to the federation of ten cities called the Decapolis.