Prayer Prompt before reading MK 3:7-12: Come, Holy Spirit, teach me how to pray well, interpret the Scriptures for me so that I may know the Truth about who God the Father is and who God the Son is so that I may know who I am.
“HE TOLD HIS DISCIPLES TO HAVE A BOAT READY FOR HIM BECAUSE OF THE CROWD, SO THAT THEY WOULD NOT CRUSH HIM.” MK 3:7-12
Humbly submit your will to God (Thy Will be done) and consecrate yourself to the Sacred Heart of Jesus through Mary and Joseph.
Why do people desire Jesus? On the surface, because he heals them. Spiritually, he has mercy on them as a sinner and frees them from sin. More deeply though, He has what we want, POWER! Lucifer, the fallen angel, the most powerful angel wanted that power more than anything and could not have it.
Today, Lucifer continues to seek and destroy love wherever he can, especially marriage and the family is under attack. We want to control everything in our lives and we are so upset when our plans don’t work out. We are upset when we can’t control people in our relationships and make them do what we want. Power when used incorrectly is about popularity or status, wealth, strength, high positions, awards, and achievement.
It is not bad to achieve when we use the gifts God has blessed us with to the best of our ability to share with others. St. Teresa of Calcutta said, “It does not matter how much we accomplish, but how much we love.” The problem is when we obsess over it, work too many hours and leave our families behind, miss Mass for weekend sports tournaments, and have to go into extreme debt to keep up a fake life of wealth to keep up our status. Mother Teresa said, “In the end, it is always between you and God.”
Jesus has done an amazing job of revealing Himself to us in the last 3 weeks. He comes to us as a baby, completely innocent and poor. He is revealed at the Epiphany and worshiped by earthly kings recognizing Him as the one who has all of the POWER and is the one True King. God, with this power, does not hold it over our heads and use it against us, He gave it to us and gave Himself to us, so we may share in this power which is LOVE.
He is adored by the shepherds who were told by angels that God is on earth to bring peace to His people. Zechariah and Anna reveal at the Presentation in the temple, “This child will be responsible for the rise and fall of many in Israel”. Mary’s heart is pierced which begins a sorrowful and suffering heart that recognizes the most POWERFUL will have to suffer and die to REDEEM all sinners.
Then, John the Baptist speaks prophetic words, “Behold, the Lamb of God”. God speaks from the heavens and says, “This is my beloved Son of whom I am well pleased”. Now, we enter into Jesus’s healing ministry in the Gospel of Mark. This is to fulfill prophecies from the Old Testament about a Messiah who will come to save His people.
It is to draw people to Him. But, most importantly it is to teach us how to use POWER correctly, by SERVING and HUMILITY. Jesus uses the greatest power to serve. He uses it to love. He uses it to have compassion on others.
Most importantly, we struggle with POWER every day of our lives. If we truly desire God in our hearts, we must let go of all of our power and submit to the ONE POWER that can make us the most joyful in this life and the next. Our identity is in the GREATEST POWER through His death and resurrection, we are made in His image and likeness, we are baptized into His family and become His child, through the blood of Christ we become His brother or sister, the GREATEST POWER lives in us in the Holy Spirit and is given to us in the SACRAMENTS.
God’s grace is His life in us. This is why the saints went to Mass daily sometimes more and to confession sometimes daily or weekly. They recognized how POWERLESS they were and how much POWER God had to help them be holy and fight Satan. God desires nothing more than to give you His love and grace. Our greatest POWER is living to be the person God made us to be and sharing that with others.
God’s love is the most POWERFUL thing in the world. It conquered sin and death. It overcomes evil and darkness in our world. It forgives and is for giving. It heals. It changes lives and creates lives. Most importantly, God’s POWER is LOVE. There is no greater POWER than God’s LOVE in all the world.
NOTHING has ever beat God’s LOVE!!! Our POWER is pale in comparison to God’s POWER. We will be held accountable by this POWER on judgment day. At some point we are going to have to submit to the POWER that created us, it would be smart not to let that be our death bed.
It would also be wise to humbly submit to Him, give Him everything, visit Him daily in prayer, invite Him into our daily activities and especially our temptations, visit His mother daily and ask for her help since He told us to from the Cross, receive Him at Mass, and share Him with others by modeling Him in our lives being who we were created to be.
Why do people desire Jesus and want to get so close to Him and crush Him? Holiness is attractive. He is the Way to our heavenly home, our hearts greatest desire. He gives us the POWER to get there and the joy is overwhelming.
Today’s challenge: Make a habit of getting up early in the morning to spend time with Jesus to make Him the center of your life, not just a part of your life. Give up yourself totally and completely to Him through Mary and everything you own. Allow Him to have power over you, so that you have power over the Devil and your desires.
Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children, Jan. 22nd
Please pray for all pre-born babies, their parents, and for those who have had an abortion. Please pray for doctors and nurses and all who work at abortion facilities. Please pray for all lawmakers to make laws to protect life and over turn laws that don’t.
Be a servant, become a saint!
#Christian YODO (You Only Die Once; we will live again!)
This is telling me that all that we need to succeed is Jesus and faith. If we do not have both of these, then there is no way we will be able to make it into heaven.
What stood out to me was: St. Teresa of Calcutta said, “It does not matter how much we accomplish, but how much we love.” This stood out to me because I really highlights the fact that some people think that the only thing that matters are how much money you make, how successful you are etc., but the only thing that matters remotely is how much you can Love.
“He had cured many and, as a result, those who had diseases
were pressing upon him to touch him.
And whenever unclean spirits saw him they would fall down before him
and shout, “You are the Son of God.”
He warned them sternly not to make him known.”
This stuck out to me due to it saying that even the unclean spirits knew that Jesus is the Son Of God, but yet some people in this world dont believe despite everything he has done for us. Despite the fact he cured thousands, despite all the miracles. I believe that people should strive to spread the word of God, try to go to mass, at least make an effort. Make an effort to learn about God, make an effort to go to mass, just try.
I love today’s Gospel because it says people from many countries went to Jesus and they were all asking for healing. I am very inspired by all of their faith because if you think about it: if you heard there was some dude all the way in like, Mongolia or something, healing people left and right, would you take a risk and make the trip to with a loved one to have them healed? These people truly believed that Jesus could heal, so they went and their incredible faith paid off because Jesus is never not worth it.
In today’s gospel Jesus is out and about preaching and healing but the problem is He is about to be crushed by the crowd. He then gets into a boat and preaches and heals from there.
“HE TOLD HIS DISCIPLES TO HAVE A BOAT READY FOR HIM BECAUSE OF THE CROWD, SO THAT THEY WOULD NOT CRUSH HIM.” MK 3:7-12. This stood out to me because Jesus is saying that he needs a boat because of the crowd that came to him for help. Another reason why this stood out to me is because there were lots of people in the crowd Jesus could have gotten stressed from the amount of people that needed to be healed.
Jesus didn’t want everyone to know that He is healing because then some people who are mean would use Him just to get healed. If we use God then He won’t want to help us sometimes. We can’t use God to get what we want, it just doesn’t work that way. We have to always be believing in God and never give up on Him!
what i think this means is that Jesus doesn’t crave fame he doesn’t want to be liked because of the miracles he wants to be loved through prayer and not just because he can do all these great things like a celebrity he wants to be loved like God and not like a celebrity because their is a huge difference. The people desire him because he is our God and he heals them through prayer
What I got from that is ¨ In the end, it is always between you and God.¨ and to use the power I was given correctly.
In today’s Gospel, Jesus healed and cleansed people from all over. We are the people being healed and cleansed over and over, we allow sin to get to us. We go back to Him every time, because we can’t help ourselves but Jesus can.
I really like the qoute ¨In the end, it is always between you and God.¨ By Mother Teresa because it tells us that no matter what we do. Everything will lead back too God. And this is what the scripure tells us, about how no matter how much wealth we have or how popular we are. None of that will pay out in the end when we come face to face with God.
Even the demons believe in God. They know that God is real. Believing in God is much different from following him. We are called to be disciples of him not believers.
In the Gospel today, all of these sick and unclean people came before Jesus, asking to be cured. Jesus didn’t want all of the praise just for His miracles. He wants the praise through true and loving actions that resemble Jesus. He wants us to realize the true reason why He came to save us. We need to be open to God’s teaching. We need to be humble, like Jesus was when everyone was praising Him. We need to include everyone, just like Jesus did. We need to love our enemies, just like Jesus did. We need to do all things for God, just like Jesus did.
In today’s Scripture it is talking about how we desire Jesus, but that does not mean we should take advantage of him. God is love and he has empowered us in the Holy Spirit. It stuck out to me that we should always find a time where we can meditate, pray, or just sit in silence and thank God for all that he has done and given us. God is the most powerful person on this earth and there is nothing greater than God’s love. Jesus is enough for us and we should thank him because if he never died, we would be sinners and we would not be saved by the mighty power of God. God has given us so much that sometimes we are ungrateful and don’t realize how much we are loved by the Father. Even if you are so caught up in your life and you are so busy, we should always find a time in peace and quiet to thank us for waking up another day. Some don’t wake up to see another day that is why we should thank God for giving us another day of life. We should never go to sleep angry at someone because that is not what Jesus would do. Have a good rest of your day! God Bless You!!! God loves you so much with his whole heart!!!
“God’s love is the most POWERFUL thing in the world”. If we truly desire God, we should let go of all of our power and give it to the one power. He is the only one who can make us most joyful in this life and the next.
“He told his disciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, so that they would not crush him.”
In the Gospel today there are tons of people! Jesus literally asks his disciples to prepare a boat so the people would not crush him. That’s faith and that’s what we need to see everywhere and that’s what our faith needs to be. They believed in Jesus and so they followed him. We need to follow Jesus. There should be so many people that it should almost crush him, but there isn’t and that needs to change.
What surprised me today in the gospel was this ¨He told his disciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd,
so that they would not crush him.¨
In today’s Gospel, Jesus is getting mobbed for healing people. He tells them not to spread what he has done, but that does nothing to stop the crowd from flocking him. Jesus helps form his ministry by telling people what he wants them not to do, to most effectively spread the word. He does it differently. To follow Jesus we must do it differently too.
“He told his disciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, so that they would not crush him.” To me this means that so many people that he didn’t want him to be crushed.
Jesus is the most powerful person that was in the whole world. He loves us and he wants to follow him and worship him.
Jesus loves us and is powerful cause he healed people
Todays gospel says “And whenever unclean spirits saw him they would fall down before him and shout, “You are the Son of God.” When he could comand the unclean spirits the Jews should have realized he was the Son of God. Instead they took it as proof that he was from the devil not God. I hate to say this but we would probably think the same thing. We need to see that God is all powerful and can even command his enemies.
We always want to listen to God and what he preaches about. His Word is one of the most important books you could read. People are always aware of his greatness. This reminds me of Fear of the Lord. People are not actually scared of him, but act with great reverence.
In today’s gospel Jesus is out and about preaching and healing but the problem is He is about to be crushed by the crowd. He then gets into a boat and preaches and heals from there.
I loved today’s gospel because it showed how much people really trusted Jesus. They came to Him from all over the place trusting that He could heal them or someone they knew and loved. This really shows that we need to trust in Jesus and He will heal and help us.
He gave it to us and gave Himself to us, so we may share in this power which is LOVE.By the Eucharist he gave him self up for us.And he gave us his blood and he opened the gates of heaven.NOTHING has ever beat God’s LOVE!!! Our POWER is pale in comparison to God’s POWER. We will be held accountable by this POWER on judgment day.
i think the gospel was telling me that if you have faith and if you believe he can heal you.
I think the gospel was telling me that if you have faith and if you believe he can heal you. I was also hearing the gospel say its not about the large amount of people it was the love he had for them the love was to death.He wasn’t there for fame he was there for our sins. I think he could sit there while we hate him or don’t believe him. he will take it if he wants it, our hate,our disbelief, our sin. he wants it all.
In the Gospel Jesus even though Jesus is being crowded around, he still is respectful. As unclean spirits see him, they fall to their knees and say “You are the son of God.” This proves that God is all-powerful and has power over Satan. We should be thankful because Jesus died for our sins and if he had not we would not know him and we would not be able to go to Heaven.
The gospel today is about the protection and healing of the unborn, he tells his disciples that he needs a boat so that he can get away from the crowd. People came from many places and Jesus was worried about being “crushed” or trampled by the crowd. People knew that Jesus could heal just by touching him or his cloak. Have an amazing day and God bless.
In the Gospel it says that people came from all over some came to be healed and some came just to listen to Jesus teach. No matter the reason Jesus did both helped and healed. Jesus also asks his disciples to get a boat for him because so the crowd wouldn’t crush him they had so much faith in him they were fighting just to touch him. That’s the kind of faith we should all have when we are ever in need.
It surprised me because it shows how much people love him and believe in his power to heal all.
I think today’s gospel teaches us that power can blind us. Like satan constantly seeks for power over Christ. But even when we seek and strive for control we cant keep ourselves together, we are completely blind-sided from sin. We aren’t perfect like Jesus, we have all of the saints as examples, through all of them it wasn’t their power that made them great. It was Jesus calling them to be great, a leader, an example, and mostly a servant of Christ. We can be just like them if we let Christ take control.
This is a well-thought out reflection and the wisdom you have gained and written about are timeless!
Great job, Thomas!
The people didn’t want other people to know who he was. He asked for Infront of him because he didn’t want to get crushed.
The Gospel is telling me how powerful, important, and amazing Jesus is. He was loved by everyone that the town was crowded just for Jesus.
I learned that Jesus is the most powerful person. He has healed and cleansed a lot of people. He doesn’t want to be known to many because he doesn’t want to be used by people who don’t even know him or dislike him.
Jesus is saing that God/Jesus is above the sabethand you should do good on the sabith
“He warned them sternly not to make him known.” I think this is saying that he could not be known for his safety and others because he didn’t want them to get hurt.
This shows us how much God truly loved us. It shows that Jesus’ followers truly believed in Him. He was brave to do these things I know that if people were chasing me I would be scared but God was not.
Spiritually, he has mercy on them as a sinner and frees them from sin. This stuck out to me because God Doesn’t own us anything but he loves us so much that he died for us and forgives us when we sin.
I think Jesus was very smart to have a boat ready so that he would not be crushed by the crowds.
I think it is really cool that so many people wanted to meet and see or listen to Jesus. He had to be on a boat so they didn’t crush Him, there was that many people that they could have crushed Him.
what spoke out to me in this Gospel is that Jesus tells his disciples to go and get him a boat to get away from the crowd so that they can not crush him. cus they all wanted to touch him to get healthy. jesus does not want fame cus he heals he wants to have people to follow him for his father in heaven.
“God, with this power, does not hold it over our heads and use it against us, He gave it to us and gave Himself to us, so we may share in this power which is LOVE.” This stuck out to me because a lot of people confuse God’s power and think that it is only for the ones that are perfect in all ways. No one is perfect, no one is chosen over others by God, He loves everyone equally.
Mother Teresa said, “In the end, it is always between you and God.”
this line really speaks to me because we are always trying to impress or get approval from others and its true in the end it really is just between you and God only.
In the Gospel today Jesus is afraid of being crushed or trampled by the crowd this is an example that we need God’s loving and kind forgiveness. God is all knowing all powerful and loves us so deeply He wants to protect our lives because we are so precious to Him. Every life is and should be valued and this Gospel is a great example of that.
It’s okay to want to try and achieve things especially if you use the gifts God has given you but you shouldn’t abuse those gifts and use them wrongfully. You shouldn’t let the desire for status, popularity, or what others think of you take a hold of your life and interfere with your family and God.
what stuck out to me was that the crowds were so amazed and ready to see Jesus that they would have crushed him just to touch his foot.
If I asked you “do you want to be famous or super smart” which would you choose? What if I asked like this “do you want to be famous or do you want to be in heaven forever with God”? Now I’m not saying being popular is a bad thing but it could be, do you being others down to get what you want, do you mack fun of others, or do you bring people up. I just incorrectly put a word. Did you think it was funny or did you think it was an opportunity to bring me down. If we do that we crush Jesus so stop crushing Him and bring Him up.
“HE TOLD HIS DISCIPLES TO HAVE A BOAT READY FOR HIM BECAUSE OF THE CROWD, SO THAT THEY WOULD NOT CRUSH HIM.” MK 3:7-12. in today’s Gospel Jesus wants people to be humble and not always needy. like the people with poor souls begging for forgiveness we must first have fear in God
And whenever unclean spirits saw him they would fall down before him
and shout, “You are the Son of God.” what this means to me is that God is truly Alpha and Omega. He can make unclean spirits go away and can do anything so we need to devote are hearts to him and let him guide us through are path.
“He had cured many and, as a result, those who had diseases
were pressing upon him to touch him.
And whenever unclean spirits saw him they would fall down before him
and shout, “You are the Son of God.”
He warned them sternly not to make him known.”
Even unclean sports know who Jesus is. There are some people who chose to not follow Jesus and don’t believe. He is so powerful the unclean spirit would fall before him, they went against him and knew that He is stronger and greater then they are.
In this Scripture, I think is trying to tell me that is we need to have faith. Like the people who traveled far away from their homes just to see Jesus and His works. They went away from their comfort places to receives his grace. We should do the same leave our comfort zone and go to Christ. He will heal us from all of our iniquities and we must trust that He will always deliver at the right time.
“He had cured many and, as a result, those who had diseases
were pressing upon him to touch him.” In today’s Gospel, this sentence stuck out to me because Its talking about the people who He cured. They wanted him. Just like how God helps us with things, we need Him in our life.
“The problem is when we obsess over it, work too many hours and leave our families behind, miss Mass for weekend sports tournaments, and have to go into extreme debt to keep up a fake life” When we focus on one thing to much in our lives, we forget about the other important things. Like talking with our family, we always have to be close with our family .
Today in the gospel there was a huge amount of people wanted tom see Jesus and this kind of reminds me of today’s world everyone wanting to see and meet a famous artist when we should be on our knees wanting to meet and greet Jesus because he is the one we should look up to he is our heavenly father!
This gospel passage reminds us that Jesus is so powerful but still remains humble. He didnt want people to know of His wonderful and powerful deeds. He wanted to help and serve others, which is something we should all learn to do. We were given our gifts not for ourselves, but to share them with others.
what I think the lord is trying to ask me is that would I follow a rich person to their house or to a poor person lots of people would chose the rich well because the have a lot of money but if Jesus got that option then without think he would chose the poor person house to go and help them with what ever they need. he would not judge them but love them with their whole heart just like he does to us.
In the Gospel today Jesus was preaching and everyone heard that He was going to be somewhere. Everyone came and the sick touched Him and was healed. This shows us how powerful He is and that in God nothing is impossible.
In today’s Gospel, Jesus is being followed by massive crowds just so that they can be healed. I think that this just shows the amazing power of God, and how he has the power to be able to bring massive crowds forward, and towards him to be converted. Even the unclean spirits would announce that He is the Son of God.
I think the Gospel is telling me today is that If you are open to God he can heal you. If you put your faith in Jesus and persevere Jesus sees that. It would be even better If you share your faith and knowledge with others so we can make heaven crowded.
Jesus is humble and didn’t want people to know he was the Son of God as the impure spirits called him that. But I think people already knew that as they did whatever they could to touch him, he drew a big crowd
In today’s Gospel, Jesus is trying to get away from the large crowd that is following Him. He failed and a large crowd followed Him to the sea. He tried to get the disciples to get a boat ready. The crowd were all around Him and they were touching Him, squishing Him, and all that. Whenever there were unclean spirits around Him they would kneel down and praise Him and say “You are the Son of God.”
I think this Gospel tells me to not take Jesus for granted and to not use Him. We shouldn’t just pray to Jesus when we want something, we should pray to Him because we love Him. Silence is also another way to talk to God in a way where we were not just asking for something, were talking to Him.
in today’s gospel it talks about Satan trying to bring us down and make us fall for sin, but we have to realize that God’s power, will, and love is much more stronger and there is nothing as strong as God’s love for us. Not even sin.
Something that stuck with me when i read this is that the devil attacks people who are in theyre peak and messes them up. people whenever they are having a good day and something suddenly happens can throw em off, the reason is becuase we want control and to fix it but most of the times we just end up making it worse. Today it talks about how the devil can come into people lives and attacks people. What we need to do sometimes when something haopens is to relax, take a minute, think about everything, and after pray to God for help and how to fix this problem of yours. it just takes time, patience, and also i little bit of faith in the Lord so he can help you fix your situation.
The people who stand before Jesus fall to their knees begging for mercy and repenting themselves and saying “You are the song of God” and as a result Jesus heals the sick cures the diseases opens blind eyes deaf people hear his name and the cripple walk. God is good and he does nothing but good we must imitate the Divine One Jesus Christ
“He warned them sternly not to make him known.” Jesus wants everyone to think of him as a regular person even thought he’s not. He is the son of God the most powerful being yet he does not show off. We need to be more like Jesus not showing off to get someone to like us but by just being ourselves.
Today what I got out of this Gospel is that when Jesus heals us we must always keep that in our head that no other God or person can heal us and that is why Jesus is the one true God and we are meant for him and he is meant for us.
In today’s Gospel Jesus heals and saves people from unclean spirits. God has come here to save us and He is so powerful that the unclean spirits fell down before Him and shouted “You are the Son of God.” We should trust God and help each other get to our goal of Heaven.
The message I got from today’s gospel was that we should not only love God when we want something. In the gospel today, it seems that many only wanted to see him because they wanted something from him. I think that it is good that they truly believed he could heal them, but we should realize that God shouldn’t just be in our lives as someone we go to when we need something. But rather he should be someone we want to spend time with because of how much we love him.
In today’s Gospel Jesus is telling that he is the truth, he is the light
and he is the way and he is telling us to share his love and
it goes back to the people of him .
In today’s Gospel, people from many places come to see Jesus. Some ill-stricken people came near Jesus and the unclean spirits would fall before him and say, “You are the Son of God.” How crazy is that? Jesus could literally heal people with his presence, a miracle! Imagine you saw that in public: some homeless guy with a blind eye and missing leg comes close to that rumored magical healer, and suddenly the homeless guy can see and walk normally! You’d be amazed! Likewise with Jesus, we see him perform many miracles, yet the Pharisees and scribes are cold-hearted. So, let us be amazed at what miracles we see performed by Jesus, especially at Mass, and use these beautiful miracles as our foundation of why we believe in Jesus.
What today’s gospel is telling me is that even though popularity can make you feel good it’s it always right and it doesn’t always make you do the right things. But, if you do use your popularity to spread the Gospel then it can be good.
What I got from today’s scripture is that Jesus is so popular people travel far just to see him just to be healed much like people today travel to go see their favorite celebrity. Jesus was the first celebrity and now look at what celebrity’s are now. We need to make Jesus a celebrity again we need to travel for church and sacrifice our time to him as if we were going to give up our time to any other person Jesus could be more important for that.
Today’s gospel tells us to be humble. Even if we have something that makes us feel like we are better than others, we shouldn’t flaunt it. We should try to stay humble like Jesus did and keep to ourselves. We don’t want to fall under temptations and yearn for things that are other than God. We need to stay humble.
What stood out to me in the Gospel is how Jesus needed to have a boat ready for Him to retreat to because of the people who were like a wave running to Him. That amazes me because I’ve always thought of Jesus healing people in small areas and then those people telling others, but never the “others” crowding Him and the diseased pressing up against him trying to forcibly become clean.
I think today in the Gospel God is telling me to follow Jesus because only he can save me from my sins and heal me. Jesus had cured so many people that the sick were desperate to touch his clothing.
“And whenever unclean spirits saw him they would fall down before him
and shout, “You are the Son of God.” This stuck out to me because the unclean spirits saw how powerful Jesus is, and they started to believe he was the son of God.
Jesus didn’t want people to know He is healing people because he didn’t want people to just start following Him because He can heal people.
I think Jesus is trying to tell me that he loves us so much that even his diciples followed him and he cared for all of them and he also cares for us and he loves us.
in today’s gospel it says that the unclean spirits fell down before him and announced that he is the son of God. this shows that everyone even the unclean spirits, sinners, and regular people follow God because he is the way the truth and the light.
The part of this Gospel that stuck out for me was when it says “He had cured many. This means to and, as a result, those who had diseases were pressing upon him to touch him.” This means to me that even though more and more people would come to be healed God kept healing because he cares about everyone and everything and He will give himself up for the sake of others.
Jesus is SO POWERFUL that EVEN THE DEMONS bowed down and recognized that HE IS indeed THE SON OF GOD.
power is a viel in your face remove it and share your gifts and wealth be humble like on jesus birth and he comming in ordinary bread and wine bread my ordanary cerial and breakfast is what he came in defend those who cant defend themselves like the unborn pray or do something extra and remember be THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD
“He told his disciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd,
so that they would not crush him.” This stood out to me because there were so many people in the crowd that Jesus was worried they would crush him.
He had cured many and, as a result, those who had diseases were pressing upon him to touch him. And whenever unclean spirits saw him they would fall down before him and shout, “You are the Son of God”. This stook out to me because it made me think that those people who were ill got to really know God’s love for them, and so Im kinda jealous of them.
Todays gospel shows God can heal and help us. But for him to do that, we must reach out to him. Even the sickly and crippled went to him because they had faith. We need to be like them and trust that God can heal us.
Today the gospel says “And whenever unclean spirits saw him they would fall down before him and shout, “You are the Son of God.” When he could command the unclean spirits the Jews should have realized he was the Son of God. Instead they took it as proof that he was from the devil not God. I hate to say this but we would probably think the same thing. We need to see that God is all powerful and can even command his enemie
What I took from today’s gospel is that Jesus is the only person that can heal us. We also should not only go to Jesus because we want him to do something for us, we should also go to Jesus so that we can get to know him better and get closer to him.
“He had cured many and, as a result, those who had diseases were pressing upon him to touch him.” I think this shows how powerful God is that people would do anything to be healed.
what I got from today’s gospel was that we usually mistake power for something it isn’t. Gaining true power is gaining humility, love, and servability. Still we struggle with that power every day. Only God has that power and will keep that power forever, he is humble, he serves and he loves more than anything. It is because of that, that he gives us opportunities to come back to him. we should strive to be as humble as we can, love as much as we can, and serve as much as we can. amen
in the gospel it says that the unclean spritis know who he is, and sometimes we cant recognize that. I don’t know wether if he appeared to me now whether I would recognize him or not. I think sits trying to tell us to always strive to recognize God, no matter who you are.
The thing that spoke out to me in the Gospel was when Jesus asked His disciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd crushing him. The people who were sick were fighting just to touch Jesus and to be healed because they had faith that Jesus could heal them. I think we forget how much faith we should and need to have in Jesus Christ our savior.
In today’s gospel I find it inspiring to see the faith of the diseased. They know and firmly believe that Jesus can heal them. Jesus can heal us too. If we have faith Jesus can heal us of anything that is burdening us. Also it really gives testament to Jesus as God because even the unclean spirits from the netherworld recognize and Revere him as the Son of God. I find this extraordinary.
This reflection really told me about how power can be so blinding to us. We can feel super mighty and forget that Jesus is always more powerful than us. It tells us about how we need to desire the power Jesus has to love all of us as sinners, not desire the power itself.
“And whenever unclean spirits saw him they would fall down before him
and shout, “You are the Son of God.” this stuck out to me because the unclean
spirits bowed down to him aswell.
What I got from this is that we can believe in God but there is a difference between believing and following. You have to follow God and what he has planned for us and have the faith that he is there.
What stood out to me was that the disciples had to have a boat so the people wouldnt crush the Lord. So many people came to him just to touch him to be healed. For they knew that the Lord can heal and help them get to heaven.
“It does not matter how much we accomplish, but how much we love.” The problem is when we obsess over it, work too many hours and leave our families behind, miss Mass for weekend sports tournaments, and have to go into extreme debt to keep up a fake life of wealth to keep up our status. Mother Teresa said, “In the end, it is always between you and God.”
we need to stop missing mass and time with God because we are just “simply busy” we are not, we just don’t want to go. we need to connect with God and fix our relationship with him
God is saing that we donot need the things of this world. we shold bles those who treat us well and testify agenst those who do not.