“LORD, EVEN THE DOGS UNDER THE TABLE EAT THE CHILDREN’S SCRAPS.”
Humbly submit your will to God (Thy Will be done) and consecrate yourself to the Sacred Heart of Jesus through Mary and Joseph.
Prayer Prompt before reading MK 7:24-30: Come, Holy Spirit, teach me how to pray, interpret the Scriptures for me so that I may know the Truth about who God the Father and God the Son are so that I may know who I am.
The Syrophoenician woman is a non-Jew and a foreigner. She is unclean according to Jewish law. She has not been raised in Jewish ways and does not understand or know about the story of God and His chosen people of Israel. This is why Jesus says, “Let the children be fed first (Jews).” She perseveres, “Lord, even the dogs under the table eat the children’s scraps.” She understands that she is not worthy but she believes Jesus has the power to heal her daughter whom she loves.
Faith consists of complete trust in God, vulnerability, and total surrender to His will. It’s hard. In the most difficult times in your life, the worst addictions, the hardest sin, do you believe God has the power to help you through it? Do you believe Jesus is right there with you in that suffering, that temptation? If not, what do you put your faith in? What do you believe?
As we are about to embark on another 40 days in the desert, we will be fasting, praying, and giving alms. This is a great checkpoint to see how strong your faith is. What parts of your life or sin is leading you away from Christ? Is your faith lukewarm? Do you desire holiness? Ask Jesus to increase your faith this Lenten season!
Today’s challenge: Faith begins with hope. Pope Francis said that Christian hope is born in the resurrection of Jesus Christ. It is a belief that begins in your heart. When we realize we cannot do life on our own, we fall to our knees and ask God for help. We then start a journey of faith by seeking Jesus Christ and we sit and begin to learn about Him in the Scriptures. Once we have discovered the joy that Christ brings, we want to share it, which is love.
God, please increase in me faith, hope, and love.
Be a servant, be a saint today!
#Christian YODO (You Only Die Once; We will live again!)
This is saying that even the people whom others put down the most have just as much of a chance at becoming great in the eyes of God.
The woman whose daughter had a demon in her was a Greek and this shows that people from all the way across the Mediterranean came to Jerusalem just because they heard about Jesus. The faith in this lady is incredible because she walked over 1,000 miles with someone to get to Jerusalem and that is an incredible amount of faith.
What I got from that was that if I see that someone is hungry, then other them my food to them!
Today in the Gospel, it shows us that God’s mercy is not limited by race, ethnicity, or background. Jesus loves us no matter what and who we are. This idea resembles the Gospel today. A woman comes and lays at Jesus’s feet. She is a Greek, and a Jew. Jesus loved her so much that he healed her daughter. The woman believed and was so hopeful of Christ, that she believed that even the tiniest crumb could heal her daughter. That is how we need to believe in Christ. We need to trust in his plans and what He has in store for us.
“She replied and said to him,
“Lord, even the dogs under the table eat the children’s scraps.”
Then he said to her, “For saying this, you may go.
The demon has gone out of your daughter.”
When the woman went home, she found the child lying in bed
and the demon gone.”
This part stuck out to me due to it saying that God can send out demons, he can help us. We just need to believe that he can and will help us. If we do not believe why would he drove out demons? There is no point if you wont believe. The Lord is capable of many incredible things, we just need to believe.
in today’s Gospel, Jesus healed a woman’s child from a demon. Jesus saw that the woman knew that she is unworthy and still asked Him to heal her child. Just as the woman we are unworthy for God’s love because it is so great, and He knows that. But He still gives us His love.
In today’s gospel, Jesus tells us to trust in His plans for us and ways. The woman and her daughter believed in Jesus so much! We need to trust in Him like they did. Having trust in God is the most important thing in life even if we don’t believe it or think so!
In the Gospel the Syrophoenician woman believed in Jesus, enough that she fell at his feet and begged him to drive the evil spirit out of her daughter. That woman believed and that’s our problem, we don’t. We need Jesus, if we don’t we might have the same problems and we’re need Jesus’ help to clean her. We need love and Jesus places that right in front of our faces and we take it for granted. Sometimes we don’t even take it. We have Jesus and Mary and Joseph and God and all the angels and saints that love us and care for us yet we don’t take that love. A lot of the time we don’t take the love from our neighbors. And THATS what’s wrong with us. We need to take his love. Yet we don’t, so fix it.
“Faith consists of complete trust in God, vulnerability, and total surrender to His will. It’s hard.” During your worst times, instead of sitting in hurt we should believe that God is with us through it. What really stuck out to me was “Once we have discovered the joy that Christ brings, we want to share it, which is love.”
Jesus says to let the children be fed first not the dogs. God does not punish you and send you to hell. he gave you so many options and you chose to not choose him.
this shows that no one is unworthy of Gods compassion and love and that he will love us no matter what and he cares about us when we don’t care about him that is what is so good about him that he will always love and forgive us
The passage from Mark 7:24–30 shows the encounter between Jesus and a Syrophoenician woman, serving as a profound lesson on humble faith, persistence, and the inclusive nature of God’s grace.
The Gospel shows how merciful God is to all of his children. Sometimes we all think that we are just not cared about or not enough. We all have a Father who loves each and every one of us and we can always talk to him about our struggles.
What really stood out to me was this “Lord, even the dogs under the table eat the children’s scraps.”Then he said to her, “For saying this, you may go. It stood out to me because he healed her because she said a few words.
Jesus drives a demon out of a girl and helps her so from Jesus’ example we should help under people who need help such as donating to charities and volunteering.
She has not been raised in Jewish ways and does not understand or know about the story of God and His chosen people of Israel. If she can become a catholic off of no one in her family being catholic anyone can be a catholic.And if you are already a catholic stay a catholic your inter life do not stop going to church and receive the Eucharist every Sunday and pray every day and follow the 10 commandment to go to heaven.Be a good person!
Good Morning, in todays gospel Jesus went to the district of Tyre. He entered a house hoping no one would notice but it was impossible, a women’s daughter had an unclena spirit and wanted it cleansed. The women fell to her knees and begged and so Jesus was merciful and healed her.
In today’s gospel, Jesus is walking through Tyre and finds a woman whose daughter is possessed with a demon inside her. Jesus heals her and the demon leaves her body. Jesus is trying to say that we should try to heal others and to love other people.
Today’s gospel talks about a woman who wants to drive a demo out of her daughter. Jesus talks about how it would not be right to give the children’s food to the dog. She responds that the dogs eat only the table scraps. I think when she said this it was a symbol that they are humble. Doing this she showed her following of God’s beatitudes and laws so he cleansed the daughter.
In the Gospel today a Greek woman begs Jesus to heal her daughter of an unclean spirit. I find it interesting that they mention she’s Greek and that Jesus didn’t even go see the girl like he did with the Roman soldiers.
In todays gospel says “Then he said to her, “For saying this, you may go. The demon has gone out of your daughter. ”When the woman went home, she found the child lying in bed and the demon gone.” God doesn’t need to be present for him to preform miricals. He is all powerfull. Just because he isn’t visibly present doesn’t mean he isn’t working miricals in your life.
In this Gospel Jesus heals a daughter. This shows that faith can save anyone. The woman shows her immense faith by believing in Jesus even though she is from a different religion. Jesus has a lot of mercy and he healed a woman’s daughter even though she was unclean.
In today’s Gospel, Jesus drives out a demon of a young girl. By casting out the demon He shows us that He can drive away sin and fear . If we turn to Him for help we ourselves can be helped and saved by the love of Jesus.
if you believe in Jesus he can save from your sin. only if you trust in him can he save you. like the woman in the gospel she was not a Jew she was poor but that didn’t matter Jesus didn’t see that what he saw was a believer she believed him so she was saved her daughter was saved all because believed.
This shows me how merciful God is to his children. God drives out a demon from a girl. So this shows us that he can drive out sin and fear from us.
The Gospel today taught me that Jesus is always looking out for you. Even though the girl wasn’t with her mother, Jesus still healed her. We may not notice that Jesus is always with us and healing us. We should be like him. We should pray for others, donate, or hang out with them.
Today Jesus heals a sick women. It shows that your faith can heal you. Following Jesus is not a waste of time. NO, He is the way the truth and the light. Who will save you if you ask. He may not give you want you want. But He will give you what you need. He heals people through their faith. If your faith is weak you will not have enteral life in Heaven with Him for all eternity.
Today’s gospel is telling me that Jesus will always put him children first. He loves us uncontrollably and will do anything for us.
“She replied and said to him,
“Lord, even the dogs under the table eat the children’s scraps.”
Then he said to her, “For saying this, you may go.
The demon has gone out of your daughter.”
When the woman went home, she found the child lying in bed
and the demon gone.” I think this is saying that Jesus told the woman that he daughter would be safe and that the devil will never come to her again because he told her to do what he asks.
Trust in Him and you will do great things.
True faith is a complete trust in God even through the hardest time in your life. God has the power to help you pull through your times of struggle and soar higher than ever. If you believe your faith isn’t complete or full, ask God for his help and your faith will grow stronger.
The part that really stuck out to me was when Jesus told the Syrophoenician woman to feed the children first but out of pity that the dogs steel the children’s scraps Jesus casts out the demons from the daughter right there.
“Let the children be fed first. For it is not right to take the food of the children and throw it to the dogs.” Jesus compares this woman to a dog. She replied with this “Lord, even the dogs under the table eat the children’s scraps.” Jesus praised her response and the demon left her daughter. Jesus seemed to not want to heal her daughter at first. He questions her and she answers correctly. This is like our life when we pray to God and ask him for something we do not receive it instantly. He tests our faith and if it still stands strong he fulfills our prayers.
What standed out the most to me was this paragraph, “Faith consists of complete trust in God, vulnerability, and total surrender to His will. It’s hard. In the most difficult times in your life, the worst addictions, the hardest sin, do you believe God has the power to help you through it? Do you believe Jesus is right there with you in that suffering, that temptation? If not, what do you put your faith in? What do you believe?” It’s saying that even in the most difficult times of your life, you will get through it eventually. With Jesus by your side, he will walk you through this dark time.
Amen, Khloee! Absolutely, praying for all of those out there suffering a difficult time or situation right now! Invite Jesus in, offer up your suffering for other’s who are suffering or for the atonement of someone else’s sin. Please pray for me as well!
In today´s gospel Jesus casts out a demon from a girl. This shows that he can do all things. W should have no fear through him.
Jesus didn’t want anyone to know that he was staying in an in. But a woman and her daughter appeared and she asked God to remove the demon out of her. Jesus drove the spirit out of her and he showed us that he is not afraid of sin or fear.
In today’s Gospel Jesus is in the town of Tyre. He goes to a house wanting to be unnoticed, but a woman came whose daughter had a demon Jesus then drove out the unclean spirit. This is a great example of God’s loving and kind forgiveness. He loves us and wants the best for us even if we fall. He is always there to pick us up again.
what i got out of this gospel is that Jesus was trying to go into a room by him self but as he wqas walking in he saw a women and she said to him to help her daughter to drive out her demon and so he did when he said to her let the child eat first.
Faith consists of complete trust in God, vulnerability, and total surrender to His will. It’s hard. In the most difficult times in your life, the worst addictions, the hardest sin, do you believe God has the power to help you through it? Sometimes it’s really hard to remember that God can help us through the hard times, and sometimes when we pray our prayers aren’t answered in the way we want them to be. That can lead us to thinking that if God is so powerful and almighty then why would he give me this pain, or why wont he take this pain away from me. We as Catholics have to just trust in Gods plan of salvation, because in reality Jesus dying on the cross wasn’t the end. It was just the beginning of God’s great plan of salvation to permanently save us from sin and death so we can be with him and in him forever in heaven.
“Faith consists of complete trust in God, vulnerability, and total surrender to His will.” we have to be open to loving God. God loves us and is always there even when we arent there. When we put full trust in Him we are opened to a much better holy life.
¨Faith consists of complete trust in God¨. Being a christian is so hard because we have to believe in something we cant see. We have to believe that we are praying to someone who does love us eternally without not ever seeing him face to face. That´s why faith is the center of our religion.
“Let the children be fed first.
For it is not right to take the food of the children
and throw it to the dogs.” What this means to me is that God loves and value each and every one of us and will take care and provide. God not only gives us physical food but also spiritual food when we receive the eucharist in mass.
I really like today’s Gospel because it’s talking about a girl with a demon and she speaks the truth about the children and in return God casts the demon out of her. This just proves how amazing God really is and what all He can do for us.
I think the gospel is saying that in the eyes of God we are all equal. Sometimes it feels like some people were born with more and that our lives are less. But God came to save everyone. God gave us all a chance to be saved. No matter what sin youve committed or what race you are Jesus came to save ALL of us.
“Faith consists of complete trust in God, vulnerability, and total surrender to His will. It’s hard.” You have to trust in God no matter what because He is always going to be the person that’s going to help you. You have to just talking to Him and ask Him to help you and He will because He helps everyone in the world, all you have to do is trust Him.
In today’s Gospel I think God is telling me that we should not hold back our thoughts from Him. If we want Him to do something we can ask but he does want it to happen. It does not matter just trust in God and ask even if it is a no be grateful that you realize what he is telling you. He wants us to ask He wants us to depend on Him so, we should depend and ask and have a true relationship with Him.
In the Gospel today Jesus drives out an unclean spirit in a girl. He also tries to go unnoticed through crowds but cannot. This shows that people are starting to believe that He is the Messiah.
what I think the Lord is trying to tell me is, that Jesus did not care that the women was not a Jew he was still going to help her because Jesus loves everyone with his whole heart. It doesn’t matter to him what color we are what we believe in what we did. in his eye we are all perfect even though sometimes it doesn’t seem like it.
In today’s gospel Jesus talks about the Syrophoenician woman and how she is a non-Jew and a foreigner. the Jewish law states that she is unclean and she also hasn’t been raised in Jewish ways and does not understand the story or know about the story.
In today’s Gospel, a woman comes to Jesus for him to heal her daughter. She comes to him showing faith and trust, just like we should strive to show. God’s love is a given gift that some of us take for granted, because it is not always easy to remember to keep Him first. Thats what we are here on Earth for.
today jeaus talk about how we must have great faith for great things to happen
In Todays reading, it proves that Jesus didnt come to just save people who were jews, not saving gentiles. He proved that he cares for everyone, Jews and gentiles. He proves this when he exorcises the demons out of the gentiles daughter because she had faith, this also proves that faith is a big part of religion
in todays Gospel a woman asked Jesus to drive a demon from her child. but she said that she should be fed first as it is unfair to take the food of the children and give it to the dogs we must remember that God can drive demons from us but we must repent and ask for him to do so.
What todays Gospel is telling me is that if we want big things to happen in our life then we need to have great faith. I think too many times I just randomly turn to God when I really want things and then get discouraged when it doesnt happen but I need to have faith in him all the time.
something that kinda stuck with me when I read this is that faith is everything. jesus tells us to have faith when things are hard and difficult and that he is not disappeared from us. Jesus is there and asks us to be tough during tough times and have Faith and know that he will fix it and he will always be with you no matter what even if you are a sinner, doubter, non-believer, believer in another religion, even if you slander his name he’ll always love you. Jesus wants us to have Faith in the tough times and know that if our faith is strong in him ANYTHING is possible.
This Gospel tells us that Jesus is very giving. He gives us an opportunity to be with Him if we believe. Jesus casts the demon out of the child because her mothers faith had saved them. Jesus gives if were willing to believe.
In today’s Gospel, Jesus tries to go to the district of Tyre unnoticed but he couldn’t escape the people. Soon after, a lady fell on her knees and begged him to drive out the demon in her daughter. Jesus says to her feed her first, and don’t give it to the dogs. But, she replies with, even the dogs under the table eat the children’s scraps. Jesus says in reply, your child is healed.
In the Gospel, The Lady believed in God and her daughter had the unclean spirit. Jesus then healed the girl and made the demon leave her body. If we ever need Jesus, we can just call out for his help through prayer.
Todays gospel told me that God has so much power over us, but he does not use it for bad. He is showing us there is a way to have power over poeple and not absue the power we have. We have to show God we trust him and love him, then he will reward us with godly gifts.
Todays Gospel highlights faith. You can accomplish anything if you have great faith in the Lord. The woman’s child got healed because of the women’s faith and that teaches us to be like her and believe in God above all things.
In today ´s Gospel it reminds me of the gift God gave us
Confession and God says “For saying this, you may go.
The demon has gone out of your daughter.” Like how
when we go to confession and we ask God to forgive us he does .
The message I got from today’s gospel was that really none of us are worthy of God’s grace, but because He loves us so much, He gives it to us anyways. I can learn from this by having complete trust in God and knowing that He will give me what I need.
Today the Woman dropped at Jesus’s feet because she believed that he would take the demons out of her daughter. Just like when you go to the doctor they will most of the time give you something to get rid of your sickness and we trust that they know. We have to have that same trust with God that we can present anything to him and he will know where to go next and that may be an answer or no answer. God is our doctor we have to have trust and know when we go to him he will most of the time give us something to heal our spiritual sickness.
What I got out of this today is that Jesus is a strong God because he can drive out any demons out of anyone because in the Gospel it says that the women is syrophoenician at birth so this just shows that Jesus can cure anyone you just have to love him for him to do it.
In today’s Gospel Jesus heals a Greek Woman’s daughter from unclean spirits. God tells her to do something and she completely trusts him, because of this she was healed. This tells us that we need to trust God and completely surrender ourselves to him.
In today’s Gospel, a Greek woman begs Jesus to cast out a demon out of her daughter. Now, back in Moses’s time, the Israelites were freed from slavery because of God, as they were the chosen race. But Jesus. Jesus came down to save everybody. Not just the Jews, but everybody in the world. He wanted everybody, whether it be Gentile or Jew, to know God’s plan to save everyone. Imagine a doctor who is world famous for healing just about any disease, and your mother has a sickness that no ordinary doctor could cure. You’d want to see this doctor to see if he could heal your mother. But, say that the doctor lives on the other side of the world, would you go? Yes, of course, anything to save your mother! Likewise, Jesus is our doctor who saves us and heals us through our hearts. Except, he’s not far away, but close to us in our souls. Many around the world worship him and Christianity is constantly getting new followers from many places. These followers have great faith and would travel the world on pilgrimages to see God and worship him. Likewise, we need to have great faith, faith so powerful that it could take us anywhere, whether it be Santiago in Spain, St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican, or the adoration chapel in your local church.
Today in the Gospel a Greek woman asks Jesus to drive a demon out of her daughter, and because she believed that Jesus came to save her as well as the Isrealites, he drove the demon out of the woman’s daughter. Jesus came to save everyone from their sins, not just a specific group of people. If we believe in that, God can do great things through us and many amazing things can happen.
In today’s gospel, Jesus heals a Greek’s daughter. It is showing Jesus does not discriminate in mercy. He didn’t care that she was not a Jew. She showed great faith and was rewarded. Because of her faith her daughter was healed. Jesus can do the same for us. If we truly believe he can, God will answer our prayers. He might not always do it in the way we would like, but he does it in the best way possible. Jesus can deliver us from any daily struggles we might have, he shows us mercy. At our worst, and at our best, he is there for us. We should never be anxious about anything because we have God on our side.
This showed me that Jesus truly loves and cares for all his children. He is always there even if you don’t believe it. Jesus is forever merciful.
I belive that faith consists of complete trust and surrender to God’s will, even in the most difficult times. The story of the Syrophoenician woman illustrates this: despite being a non-Jew and considered unclean by Jewish law, her perseverance and belief in Jesus’s power led to her daughter’s healing. we should always trust in God know matter what we shall be THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD!!!
Todays gospel shows us that God can do great things if we have faith. It may not be driving out demons, but he can certainly help us in our needs if we have faith and ask him.
I think in today’s gospel Jesus heals a Greek woman’s daughter of an unclean spirit.because of the woman’s faith her daughter was saved. this shows us that we must be like this woman and have faith so strong even with many other things going on in our lives we must always be strong in our faith because it not only affects us but the people around us as well.
today in the Gospel Jesus casts a demon out of a woman. this shows that if you put your faith and love in Jesus he will save you. you CANNOT save Yourself, that is something that only God can do. She believed he was her savior coming to save her and in return he casted out the wickedness inside of her daughter. This Gospel shows that if we put our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ we truly can be saved from the wickedness and snares of the devil.
In today’s Gospel Jesus heals a Greek woman’s Daughter. He healed her because she asked. We can ask from God and he will give.
In today’s Gospel Jesus casted out a demon from a young girl. Jesus can do great things. Jesus is like a doctor he can heal the sick and he can cast out demons. No other doctor can do that. Only Jesus can.
The Gospel today taught me that Jesus is always looking out for you. Even though the girl wasn’t with her mother, Jesus still healed her. We may not notice that Jesus is always with us and healing us. We should be like him. We should pray for others.
what stood out to me today was ” Lord, Even the dogs under the table eat the children’s scraps.”
this stood out to me because it shows that even when we don’t believe, God will still love us and protect us, no matter who we are.
“Lord, even the dogs under the table eat the children’s scraps.”
Then he said to her, “For saying this, you may go.
The demon has gone out of your daughter.”
When the woman went home, she found the child lying in bed
and the demon gone.” Jesus is so powerful, and i think that this gospel helps people see that. He made the demons go away, and helped the girl out. Whenever you are hurt and suffering, go to Jesus.
Today I think the Gosple is trying to tell me that Jesus protects people and also can heal people. When we pray to Jesus for help Jesus will always help us but sometimes you dont relize it. The girl in the gosple the mom new Jesus was there to Heal and is our savior she new that she could get Jesus help that when she got back home Her duaghter was healed.
“The demon has gone out of your daughter.” Jesus is so powerful that he could drive demons away without even being near.
Jesus grants the woman’s wish because she persisted. It is just like the parable where the friend needs bread at midnight. “Knock, and the door shall be opened unto you, seek and you shall find.
The Lord is willing to forgive us if we want to be forgiven and if we are truly sorry. We need to try to do what’s right, when we know what is wrong. We should always trust in the Lord.
The part of this passage that stuck out to me the most was when Jesus said, “Let the children be fed first.” This meant to me that we should help others first and help ourselves later because God is already giving us all the care that we need.
Next week will star the 40 days in the dessert. which will mean we will have to fast form something everyday, fast from meat on Fridays. this 40 days are to test our faith In God and Jesus. and even if we mess up he will forgive us because he still loves us.
It really stuck out to me that Jesus is kind and able to help us when we are unclean. A woman that was pissed by demons fell down to the feet of God and cleaned his feet with her hair and her tears. Jesus forgave her. This shows how Jesus is so forgivable and is able to help you when you fall down into sin. Always look at Jesus when you need his help and have trust in him that everything will be okay with God on your side.
I like how it said feed the children first, like how others are children. This is probably to show that we should help others in time of need and God will help us! We should always trust in him and follow him.
God doesn’t care what race, ethnicity, or background we have, he just wants us to be happy and be good with God. he also wants us to be happy and good with other people not just him. even if we are going through a tough time and we have addictions he is still gonna love us no matter what. just believe in him and he will always help you
“As we are about to embark on another 40 days in the desert, we will be fasting, praying, and giving alms. This is a great checkpoint to see how strong your faith is. What parts of your life or sin is leading you away from Christ? Is your faith lukewarm? Do you desire holiness? Ask Jesus to increase your faith this Lenten season!”
lent is around the corner. you can give up anything. your phone, Tiktok, social media, etc. but you can also give up unhealthy foods and junk and pop. but to increase your faith you can read the bible every night, go to sleep saying a prayer, at least say one prayer during the day. etc. give up one thing
for lent and start doing something else
I think the phrase “As we are about to embark on another 40 days in the desert, we will be fasting, praying, and giving alms.” Sort of gives us a good representation of what we are doing. Jesus fasted in the desert for 40 days and for us to just slightly feel what he did this is a good time for us to do that and get closer to him.
I think that in this Gospel it means or is saying that as long as you believe you will be saved.
In this scripture reflection, what really stood out to me was how it talks about how you have to have a serious faith during hard times. Even though you will face issues, you MUST remember that Jesus it not punishing you, its just the way life will go.
“LORD, EVEN THE DOGS UNDER THE TABLE EAT THE CHILDREN’S SCRAPS.” Something that stood out to me about this was that someone is saying that even the animals that people own are waiting for food. Its like us waiting to get to heaven because we have been waiting to get their sense the day we were born.