Mark 10:1-16 Dear RTB’ers, HAPPY EASTER! “Hallelujah! The Lord is risen! He is risen indeed! Hallelujah!” Jesus’ Resurrection is the turning point in our lives! As St. Paul writes: … if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain, your faith also is in vain. Moreover, we are even found to be …
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April 2025 Readings
Date Readings Verses 01-Apr Deuteronomy 6 25 02-Apr Deuteronomy 7 26 03-Apr Deuteronomy 8 20 04-Apr Deuteronomy 9:1-10:11 40 05-Apr Deuteronomy 10:12-11:32 43 06-Apr Deuteronomy 12-13 50 07-Apr Deuteronomy 14-15 52 08-Apr Deuteronomy 16-17 42 09-Apr Deuteronomy 18-19 43 10-Apr Deuteronomy 20-21 43 11-Apr Deuteronomy 22-23 55 12-Apr Deuteronomy 24-25 41 13-Apr Deuteronomy 26 19 …
March 23 / Mark 8:1-26
Mark 8:1-26 Dear RTB’ers, Today will be my last post for a while. I am having shoulder replacement surgery tomorrow morning and will be out of action for a while. I’ll be in a sling for about a month and then a few more months of recuperation and rehab. John S. has said that he …
March 22 / Mark 7:24-37
Mark 7:24-37 Dear RTB’ers, Fairly early on in my “active” Christian walk I was reading through I Corinthians for the first time and in chapter 11 I saw Paul’s words, very similar to the words that our priests speak at the elevation of the host and the cup: that the Lord Jesus on the night …
March 21 / Mark 7:1-23
Mark 7:1-23 Dear RTB’ers, Jesus is quoting Isaiah 29:13, This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me; in vain do they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men. (v. 7) Putting myself into this “story” (this Isaiah verse), I split the verse in half at the semicolon and …
March 20 / Mark 6:30-56
Mark 6:30-56 Dear RTB’ers, The feeding of the five thousand is one of only two incidents outside of Holy Week that is recorded in all four gospels, the other being Jesus’ baptism. I can imagine that the Jewish people who were there and were part of this miracle would later recall their ancestors wandering in …
March 19 / Mark 6:6b-30
Mark 6:6b-30 Dear RTB’ers, We never know the exact time frame for Jesus in Mark’s gospel, or in any of the other gospels, for that matter. But it was only a few days ago (Mark 3:13, ff.) that we saw His twelve apostles named. So, one wonders how long they had been with Jesus before …
March 18 / Mark 5:21-6:6a
Mark 5:21-6:6a Dear RTB’ers, I have often suggested in my posts that anyone reading our text put him/herself into the story. Today’s reading has quite a cast of characters: people in the crowd beside the sea; Jairus, the synagogue official, whose daughter is dying; the woman with the 12-year hemorrhage; one of Jesus’ skeptical disciples …
March 17 / Mark 4:35-5:20
Mark 4:35-5:20 Dear RTB’ers, Jesus calming the storm. At Avanza for many years we used the Jesus Storybook Bible (JSB) for devotionals with the kids. An interesting line comes from the JSB in this incident of Jesus calming the storm. The book has Jesus speaking His calming words, “Peace! Be still!”, and the wind and …
March 16 / Mark 4:21-34
Mark 4:21-34 Dear RTB’ers, A week ago I mentioned that there were only six items in Mark’s gospel that were not included in any of the other gospels. Today’s parable of the growing seed is one of those six items. This parable contains one precious sentence: He sleeps and rises night and day, and the …