If we have read of Jesus power over sin sickness nature death in the first eight chapters we now read of Jesus wisdom whether it be the wisdom expressed after each of his three prophecies about the passion resurrection or it be the wisdom he now shows in his brief teaching in the Templ

Because I m tired of being made to feel like an idiot was the reason a woman friend of Tablet correspondent Clifford Longley gave for no longer attending Mass One hears variations on this sentiment with such regularity among thoughtful Catholics that the temptation is to coin a further beatitud

Jesus and his disciples return to Jerusalem after a night in Bethany Ascending a staircase about 3 stories high Jesus stepped onto the Temple platform the religious political economic psychological center of Israel and of Judaism a four-cornered area about the size of a soccer field with th

Every scrap of Scripture in today s liturgy contributes to making two points actually one blended assertion The Lamb is slain and God did not intervene to stop that scandalous deed And God s flock suffers at the hands of shepherds who abuse it and profit from that abuse and though God does

It is time to enter Jerusalem and its Temple area Jesus approaches Jerusalem from the east from the Jordan River area he must climb the Mount of Olives passing key towns of Bethany and Bethphage on its crown Once over the top of the Mountain Jesus can see Jerusalem before him this city is o

Mark gives us Jesus third passion resurrection prediction it seems reasonable to say that Mark had an eye on what he will soon report about the passion of Jesus as he gives us more detail about Jesus sufferings Again we note that here as in the earlier predictions Jesus asks his disciple