Year B - Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

18^th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Year B

Exodus 16.2…15

Psalm 77

Ephesians 4.17…24 

John 6.24-35

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Details

-A spoiled rabbit.

-He is passive, laying in the grass and flowers...

-Faced with a gift, something free, he continues to ask for more, without any "please" or "thank you"

Questions

-What is my attitude faced with God's gifts for me ?

-Do I thank Him for the gift of my baptism or do I not see much importance in it ? (perhaps I should take a dive back into the foundations of baptism)

-Do I thank Him for the gift of His word ? Or is my Bible covered in dust ?

-Do I thank Him for His life given for me ?

-Am I not this spoiled child when I look at my rights as a Christian without considering my duties.

So ? What will be my path of work for the week ?

Year B - Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Seventeenth Sunday of Ordinary Time - Year B

1st Reading : 2 Kings 4,42-44

Psalm 144

2nd Reading : Ephesians 4,1-6

Gospel : Jean-6,1-15

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-The background is red; when somebody is annoyed, it places a bad atmosphere all around them.

- Except that here, the rabbit on the right keeps calm and peaceful.

- Maybe he has a solution to suggest...

- In this cartoon, I don't know who puts up with who. Everything is possible!

Questions

-Saint Paul is realistic. The "Love your neighbour as yourself" could be transformed into  "Put up with everybody, with love", stay human.

-What do I not put up with, concerning other people ?

-What do I not put up with concerning myself ?

-To become holy, must I remove that which I cannot put up with, or try to accept and to live with it ? Should I remove all that I do not like concerning other people, or should I try to accept them and to live with how they are ?

If someone else tries to remove or stop something that I do, that they refuse to put up with, what is my reaction ?

Year B - Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B

Jeremiah 23,1-6

Psalm 22

Ephesians 2,13-18

Mark 6,30-34

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Details

-Brrrr, it is nippy up here!

-No vegetation, only grey. There is no doubt, he is out on a limb !

-The rabbit has forgotten to dress himself to rest.

Questions

-Before the action, Jesus took the time to pray to his Father. Before choosing his disciples, he passed the night praying.

-After the action, Jesus sent his disciples... to rest. The rest of the disciples, it is the prayer "Only in God is my soul at rest".

-The cloth is that of the prayer. Without this cloth, the rest would be compromised, or even wasted. Do I take the time to dress myself in the cloth of prayer, before and after an action ? (and during ?)

-Let's be specific. How much time have I taken for God this week ?

-How much time have I passed in listening to Him ? To feed myself with the sacraments? To read the word of God ?

Take a piece of paper, sit down, run a check-in, don't lie... and make your conclusions.

Year B - Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B

Amos 7, 12-15

Psalm 84

Ephesians 1, 3-14

Mark 6, 7-13

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Details

-Here we observe the creation of the world. God has the globe in his hand and says "It is ready". That is to say, before putting people on earth, it required millions of years before the earth was ready to receive humans.

-Then, God already knew what to choose, in what place and in which epoch.

Before all of the world was created, I already existed in the thoughts of God. I already existed in his heart.

-That phrase alone can help me through the week "I already existed in the heart of God"

-If God had already foreseen my existence, this does not mean to say that he had programmed the content of each hour of my life. No, that is for me to fill up my life with my choices. 

Questions

-In this world, nothing is bad in itself. But what we make of it can be good or bad. Example ; I have a tongue. With it, I can bless or curse. I can say something good or bad. It is I who chooses the usage of what I have. Same for work, money, TV, food. How do I use all of these things?What pulls me close to my Creator? What pulls me away further ?

Year B - Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B

Ezzechiel 2, 2

Psalm 122

2 Corinthians 12, 7-10

Mark 6, 1-6

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-The rabbit is upright, even though he is not touching the ground.

-The bed is a pneumatic system (look at the make of the bed) "pneuma" means to breathe in ancient Greek. The breathe is the Spirit.

-It is 3am (time to get up!) 3am is the time of the death of Christ, the time of the Holy Spirit. The time where he entered in the sleep of death in order to stand us up.

-The Holy Spirit gives life, resuscitates us, stands us up, in the position of a living man.

-The rabbit is surprised, he has one eye open and the other closed

-If he chose this bed to lie in, it is because he doubted the logic of what should follow...

Questions

-God called the prohet Ezekiel to be his spokesperson. Maybe this has happened to me too, to be the spokesperson of God for a friend, in my work, with a stranger...Sometimes, we are stressed even though we are sleeping. If the Spirit stands me up, it is so that I can do other things afterwards. In the image, the space in front of the rabbit is clear, no obstacles.

Year B - St John the Baptist

St John the Baptist - Year B

Year B - Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B

Wisdom 1, 13-24

Psalm 29

2 Corinthians 8, 7-15

Mark 5, 21-43

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Details

-The rabbit smiles whilst thinking of what he would be without life; bones, skin, muscles and fat. Of course it is an interesting and complex subject, but the essential part is missing...

-To the left, the little worm thinks the same thing, except he is a little less elaborate.

-In the order of size, a blade of grass is less than a worm, a worm less than a rabbit and rabbit less than a man. And God is still bigger than all.

Questions

-If we take the word of the book of wisdom, we see the goal of God; to create something which subsists, create to continue.

-There is text that I do not like, concerning an obituary: "It pleases the Lord to remind him of X or Y" As if the Lord took pleasure in this, he who has created things and people so that they continue. It is true that we will one day find all those who have left us for an eternal party, but hey, the Lord does not play with us like puppets. Another word from the Bible says that if the Lord waits, it is so that we have the time to convert. So, he collects us when we are ripe, not when we are green or past our best.

-And I, do I weave my relationships so that they continue ? Or am I in disposable relationships ? Disposable projects ? Disposable love?