Sunday

22 Jan 2012

Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle B Click here for all content for this cycle Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle B

SUNDAY SUMMARY

Jonah 3:1-5, 10 Nineveh repents wholesale at a warning from the prophet of Israel.
Psalm 25:4-5, 6-7, 8-9 The wise will seek instruction and guidance in the ways of the Lord.
1 Corinthians 7:29-31 The time to do the right thing is running out, for the present world is passing.
Mark 1:14-20 Jesus calls two sets of brothers, who leave their business and families to follow him.

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The inner word

What’s in your heart?

In the Ninevites and the apostles Simon, James, and John, scripture today has examples of immediate repentance and turning to follow God.

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Who

Who's listening?

Who is in your audience?

The kingdom of God is at hand, the gospel says this week. It has begun. It is within us and among us. It's happening now.

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Exploring the word

Choices to be made

What’s more important: your family or your job? In most cases and in many situations we’d choose the welfare of our families over work—although the two often go hand in hand.

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Homily stories

Why follow Jesus?

WHY FOLLOW JESUS? Because he asked. It is as simple as that.

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Homily stories

Repent!

In her autobiography The Long Loneliness, Dorothy Day, the cofounder of the Catholic Worker movement, told many stories of how people came to be part of the Worker.

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Homily stories

Past, present, and future

Hurricane Katrina did more than damage buildings, flood neighborhoods, and affect energy costs. It also drastically changed the lives of thousands of residents of "The Big Easy."

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Prayers

Penitential Act & Prayer of the Faithful

We turn to God who fills our hearts with repentance.

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Homily themes

Notes on the text

As he passed by the Sea of Galilee. In describing Jesus "passing by," Mark uses an expression similar to the one used to describe the passing by of the Divine Presence in Hebrew scripture.

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Quotes

The people of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at the proclamation of Jonah, and see, something greater than Jonah is here! ​-Luke 11:32

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