13 February 2025 - Thursday of the 5th ordinary week

Gen 2:18-25; Mk 7:24-30

HOMILY

          This Gospel reveals many things to us, both about the person of Jesus and about prayer. Moreover, our attitude to prayer generally reveals quite well the image we have of God and of Christ.

13 February 2025 - Thursday of the 5th ordinary week

Gen 2:18-25; Mk 7:24-30

HOMILY

          This Gospel reveals many things to us, both about the person of Jesus and about prayer. Moreover, our attitude to prayer generally reveals quite well the image we have of God and of Christ.

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.

12 février 2025, mercredi de la 5^ème semaine ordinaire

Gn 2, 4b- 9.15-17; Mc 7,14-15.17-23

Homélie

          La lecture d’Évangile que nous venons d’entendre est la continuation de celle d’hier. Marc nous y raconte l'une des rencontres difficiles et douloureuses entre Jésus et les autorités du peuple – c’est-à-dire Pharisiens et Scribes -- qui se sont donnés comme tâche de le prendre en faute, pour se débarrasser de lui. Jésus les traite une fois de plus d'hypocrites, car ils ont fini par donner tellement d'importance aux pratiques religieuses extérieures, qu'ils ont perdu de vue la relation entre ces pratiques et l'expérience personnelle de Dieu.