i've been thinking about saving face
i've been thinking about my saving grace The Holy Gospel according to St. Mark the 1st chapter ! I don’t know about you, but often it takes everything I have just to get here Saturday night/Sunday morning. And a lot of the times I am here, man, I’m just barely hanging on. This life is no easy thing. It’s hard to keep up the faith… Week after week, we do what we can to get through the days, to run from our unclean spirits. It’s no easy thing to get here, and many weeks, by the time we finally stagger through the doors, those rotten spirits have had their way with us. All too often, we gather battered, beaten and bruised. Then, when we finally make it here, wouldn’t you know it, those foul spirits dare to show their faces even in this place; in God’s temple. There’s no escape! That’s what happens in today’s Gospel, you know. Jesus is in the temple teaching, and an unclean spirit dares to interrupt the sermon! Of course, we don’t need the Gospel to t...