YOU ARE THE SON OF GOD

January 20, 2011

D A I L Y G O S P E L

Jesus withdraws from the crowd because He knows His need for reflection. All of us need to withdraw from the busyness of our lives once in a while to reflect upon what is going on within us. This gives meaning to the experiences of our lives. If we do not reflect we will never know what life truly is. Life is not just doing things but knowing why we do them. It is this capacity for self-consciousness that makes us human and makes life worthwhile. Without it we would merely be like wind-up toys doing all sorts of things with no rhyme or reason to them.

ALLELUIA

R: Alleluia, alleluia

Our Savior Jesus Christ has destroyed death and brought life to light through the Gospel.

R: Alleluia, alleluia

Mark 3:7-12

7 Jesus withdrew toward the sea with his disciples. A large number of people [followed] from Galilee and from Judea. 8 Hearing what he was doing, a large number of people came to him also from Jerusalem, from Idumea, from beyond the Jordan, and from the neighborhood of Tyre and Sidon. 9 He told his disciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, so that they would not crush him. 10 He had cured many and, as a result, those who had diseases were pressing upon him to touch him. 11 And whenever unclean spirits saw him they would fall down before him and shout, “You are the Son of God.” 12 He warned them sternly not to make him known.