'Tis the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Tempus per annum, "time through the year"): Wikipedia-link.
Scripture of the Day
Mass Readings—Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
The Book of Ezekiel, chapter two, verses two thru five;
Psalm One Hundred Twenty-three (R/. two[c/d]), verses one & two, two, & three & four;
The Second Letter to the Corinthians, chapter twelve, verses seven thru ten;
The Gospel according to Mark, chapter six, verses one thru six.
Commentary: Gospel reflection by Bishop Robert Barron (Word on Fire):
Friends, today’s Gospel develops a theme that is uncomfortable. It tells how the people of Nazareth rejected Jesus. Authentically religious people, authentically spiritual people, will almost always be opposed. The logic behind this is simple and unanswerable: we live in a world gone wrong, a world turned upside down; therefore, when someone comes speaking the truth to us, we will think that they are crazy and dangerous.Video reflection by Father Greg Friedman, O.F.M. (U.S. Conf. of Catholic Bishops): Sunday Reflection.
Think for just a moment what would happen to you if you consistently and publicly spoke the word of God to our culture. If you spoke out against abortion, euthanasia, assisted suicide, human trafficking, rampant materialism, and ideological secularism, what would happen to you? If you presented, in a full-throated way, the full range of Catholic social and moral and spiritual teaching, what would they do to you? Today’s Gospel offers a clue.
Video reflection by Bishop Robert Barron (Word on Fire): Sunday Sermon.
Video reflection by Doctor Tim Gray (Augustine Institute/Formed.org): Sunday Reflection.
Audio reflection by Scott Hahn, Ph.D. (Saint Paul Center for Biblical Theology): Breaking the Bread.
Scripture Study—Day 91: False Peak, Day 21
The Book of Jeremiah, chapter twenty-two, verses eleven thru nineteen.
Commentary: Message to the Sons of Josiah (Jeremiah, 22:11-19).
"Jesus comes to me every morning in Communion, & I return the visit by going to serve the poor."
—Bl. Pier Giorgio Frassati, T.O.S.D. (1901-1925, feast: 4 July)
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