Glimpses of the Gospel

Glimpses of the Gospel

By Fr. Rodrigo AguilarReligion & Spirituality
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Glimpses of the Gospel episodes

  • January 29th, 2022 - III Saturday in Ordinary Time
    + Holy Gospel according to St. Mark 4: 35 – 41
    On that day, as evening drew on, Jesus said to his disciples: “Let us cross to the other side.”
    Leaving the crowd, they took Jesus with them in the boat just as he was. And other boats were with him. A violent squall came up and waves were breaking over the boat, so that it was already filling up. Jesus was in the stern, asleep on a cushion.
    They woke him and said to him, “Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?”
    He woke up, rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Quiet! Be still!” The wind ceased and there was great calm. Then he asked them, “Why are you terrified? Do you not yet have faith?”
    They were filled with great awe and said to one another, “Who then is this whom even wind and sea obey?”
    The Gospel of the Lord
    8 min
  • January 28th, 2022 - III Friday in Ordinary Time
    + Holy Gospel according to St. Mark 4: 26 – 34
    Jesus said to the crowds: “This is how it is with the Kingdom of God; it is as if a man were to scatter seed on the land and would sleep and rise night and day and the seed would sprout and grow, he knows not how. Of its own accord the land yields fruit, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. And when the grain is ripe, he wields the sickle at once, for the harvest has come.”
    He said, “To what shall we compare the Kingdom of God, or what parable can we use for it? It is like a mustard seed that, when it is sown in the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on the earth. But once it is sown, it springs up and becomes the largest of plants and puts forth large branches, so that the birds of the sky can dwell in its shade.”
    With many such parables he spoke the word to them as they were able to understand it. Without parables he did not speak to them, but to his own disciples he explained everything in private.
    The Gospel of the Lord
    9 min
  • January 27, 2022 - III Thursday in Ordinary Time

    + Holy Gospel according to St. Mark 4: 21 – 25

    Jesus said to them, 

    "Is a lamp brought in to be placed under a bushel basket or under a bed, and not to be placed on a lampstand? For there is nothing hidden except to be made visible; nothing is secret except to come to light. Anyone who has ears to hear ought to hear."

    He also told them, "Take care what you hear. The measure with which you measure will be measured out to you, and still more will be given to you. To the one who has, more will be given; from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away."

    The Gospel of the Lord

    8 min
  • January 26, 2022 - III Wednesday in Ordinary Time
    + A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Saint Mark 4: 1 – 20
    On another occasion Jesus began to teach by the sea. A very large crowd gathered around him so that he got into a boat on the sea and sat down. And the whole crowd was beside the sea on land.
    And he taught them at length in parables, and in the course of his instruction he said to them, "Hear this! A sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seed fell on the path, and the birds came and ate it up. Other seed fell on rocky ground where it had little soil. It sprang up at once because the soil was not deep. And when the sun rose, it was scorched, and it withered for lack of roots. Some seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it and it produced no grain. And some seed fell on rich soil and produced fruit. It came up and grew and yielded thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold."
    He added, "Whoever has ears to hear ought to hear."
    And when he was alone, those present along with the Twelve questioned him about the parables.
    He answered them, "The mystery of the kingdom of God has been granted to you. But to those outside everything comes in parables, so that 'they may look and see but not perceive, and hear and listen but not understand, in order that they may not be converted and be forgiven.'" Jesus said to them, "Do you not understand this parable? Then how will you understand any of the parables?
    The sower sows the word. These are the ones on the path where the word is sown. As soon as they hear, Satan comes at once and takes away the word sown in them. And these are the ones sown on rocky ground who, when they hear the word, receive it at once with joy. But they have no root; they last only for a time. Then when tribulation or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away.
    Those sown among thorns are another sort. They are the people who hear the word, but worldly anxiety, the lure of riches, and the craving for other things intrude and choke the word, and it bears no fruit.
    But those sown on rich soil are the ones who hear the word and accept it and bear fruit thirty and sixty and a hundredfold."
    The Gospel of the Lord
    9 min
  • January 25th 2022 – Feast of The Conversion of Saint Paul the Apostle
    + A Reading from Acts 22: 3 – 16
    "I am a Jew, born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this city. At the feet of Gamaliel I was educated strictly in our ancestral law and was zealous for God, just as all of you are today. I persecuted this Way to death, binding both men and women and delivering them to prison. Even the high priest and the whole council of elders can testify on my behalf. For from them I even received letters to the brothers and set out for Damascus to bring back to Jerusalem in chains for punishment those there as well.
    "On that journey as I drew near to Damascus, about noon a great light from the sky suddenly shone around me. I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, 'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?'
    I replied, 'Who are you, sir?'
    And he said to me, 'I am Jesus the Nazorean whom you are persecuting.'
    My companions saw the light but did not hear the voice of the one who spoke to me.
    I asked, 'What shall I do, sir?'
    The Lord answered me, 'Get up and go into Damascus, and there you will be told about everything appointed for you to do.'
    Since I could see nothing because of the brightness of that light, I was led by hand by my companions and entered Damascus. "A certain Ananias, a devout observer of the law, and highly spoken of by all the Jews who lived there, came to me and stood there and said, 'Saul, my brother, regain your sight.'
    And at that very moment I regained my sight and saw him.
    Then he said, 'The God of our ancestors designated you to know his will, to see the Righteous One, and to hear the sound of his voice; for you will be his witness before all to what you have seen and heard. Now, why delay? Get up and have yourself baptized and your sins washed away, calling upon his name.'
    The Gospel of the Lord
    10 min
  • January 24th, 2022 - III Monday of Ordinary Time
    + Holy Gospel according to Saint Mark 3: 22– 30
    The scribes who had come from Jerusalem said, "He is possessed by Beelzebul," and "By the prince of demons he drives out demons."
    Summoning them, he began to speak to them in parables, "How can Satan drive out Satan? If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand. And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand; that is the end of him. But no one can enter a strong man's house to plunder his property unless he first ties up the strong man. Then he can plunder his house. Amen, I say to you, all sins and all blasphemies that people utter will be forgiven them. But whoever blasphemes against the holy Spirit will never have forgiveness, but is guilty of an everlasting sin."
    For they had said, "He has an unclean spirit."
    The Gospel of the Lord
    8 min
  • January 23rd, 2022 - III Sunday in Ordinary Time

    + Holy Gospel according to Saint Luke 1: 1 – 4; 4: 14 – 21


    Since many have undertaken to compile a narrative of the events that have been fulfilled among us, just as those who were eyewitnesses from the beginning and ministers of the word have handed them down to us, I too have decided, after investigating everything accurately anew, to write it down in an orderly sequence for you, most excellent Theophilus, so that you may realize the certainty of the teachings you have received.


    Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and news of him spread throughout the whole region. He taught in their synagogues and was praised by all.


    He came to Nazareth, where he had grown up, and went according to his custom into the synagogue on the sabbath day. He stood up to read and was handed a scroll of the prophet Isaiah. He unrolled the scroll and found the passage where it was written:


    "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring glad tidings to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, and to proclaim a year acceptable to the Lord."


    Rolling up the scroll, he handed it back to the attendant and sat down, and the eyes of all in the synagogue looked intently at him.

    He said to them, "Today this scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing."


    The Gospel of the Lord

    9 min
  • January 21st, 2022 - II Friday in Ordinary Time+ Memorial of Saint Agnes, Virgin and Martyr
    +
    Holy Gospel according to St. Mark 3: 13-19
    Jesus went up the mountain and summoned those whom he wanted and they came to him. He appointed twelve (whom he also named apostles) that they might be with him and he might send them forth to preach and to have authority to drive out demons: (he appointed the twelve:) Simon, whom he named Peter; James, son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James, whom he named Boanerges, that is, sons of thunder; Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus; Thaddeus, Simon the Cananean, and Judas Iscariot who betrayed him.
    The Gospel of the Lord
    7 min
  • January 22, 2022 - II Saturday in Ordinary Time
    +
    Holy Gospel according to Saint Mark 3: 20 – 21 - Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children
    Jesus came home. Again the crowd gathered, making it impossible for them even to eat. When his relatives heard of this they set out to seize him, for they said, "He is out of his mind."
    The Gospel of the Lord
    8 min
  • January 20, 2022 - II Thursday in Ordinary Time
    + Holy Gospel according to Saint Mark 3: 7 – 12
    Jesus withdrew toward the sea with his disciples. A large number of people (followed) from Galilee and from Judea. 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. He told his disciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, so that they would not crush him. He had cured many and, as a result, those who had diseases were pressing upon him to touch him.
    And whenever unclean spirits saw him they would fall down before him and shout, "You are the Son of God."
    He warned them sternly not to make him known.
    The Gospel of the Lord
    8 min

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Daily readings from the Gospel and a brief audio comment by Father Rodrigo Aguilar, Dioceses of San Miguel, Buenos Aires, Argentina.