Reflections on the Sunday Readings

                                                                  Our gospel this week presents us with interesting thoughts about the call of the early apostles and the call to discipleship for all of us.    If we were to compare the different gospels, this call can be different.  For example, in Mark and Matthew’s account it happens similarly to this Sunday’s gospel.  In Luke’s account though the men are fishing and catching nothing and Jesus ‘s instructs them where to find the fish.  They do and catch an abundance of fish.  Peter leaves the boats, falls at Jesus’s feet, and ask him to depart because Peter is a sinner.  Jesus tells Peter from now on he will begin to catch men.  Then he and others leave their nets and follow Jesus.  In John’s gospel, the apostle John and Andrew f...

                                                                        In Jesus’s time and culture, the reference to lambs could conjure up memories of a delicious meal but also that phrase could conjure up, in the minds of its hearers, a remembrance of the primary animal that is offered as a sacrifice in the temple.                                                                                                          In the gospel this week it opens with John the Baptist seeing Jesus coming toward him and crying out, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who...

      Last Sunday we celebrated the feast of the Epiphany, (i.e. manifestation), of the Lord as made manifest in vision of a star and the realization of 3 magi that a new and great king has been born in the world.                                                                                                                                   ...