i can see you now, clear as a bell
with you arms full of thorns, & your heart like a well The Holy Gospel according to St. Mark the 6th chapter ! In the Gospel today Jesus’ hometown crowd take offense at him. And why? Simply because they think they already know him. In their hearts, the hometown crowd thinks they already know all there is to know about this Jesus… That ought to serve as a warning for us today; us who gather regularly, us who are all too prone to imagine we already know all there is to know about Jesus. After all, it is this presumed familiarity of the crowd that, not only astonishes Jesus , but makes it impossible for him to do some truly incredible feats… Today, in only the sixth chapter of Mark’s Gospel, Jesus sends the twelve to carry out his ministry. It’s a pretty bold thing, all in all. After all, Jesus and the disciples haven’t been together all that long… But not only that; because there is that scene after Jesus told the parables, how these twelve h...