Called not for what we are now, but for what we can become

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For 18 January 2020, Saturday of week 1 in Ordinary Time, based on Mark 2:13-17

  Jesus went out again beside the sea; the whole crowd gathered around him, and he taught them. As he was walking along, he saw Levi son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, “Follow me.” And he got up and followed him.

  And as he sat at dinner in Levi’s house, many tax collectors and sinners were also sitting with Jesus and his disciples—for there were many who followed him. When the scribes of the Pharisees saw that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors, they said to his disciples, “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?” When Jesus heard this, he said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick; I have come to call not the righteous but sinners.”


Scripture passage from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright 1989, 1993, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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About Sr. Kerstin-Marie Berretz OP

Sr. Kerstin-Marie Berretz OP is a Dominican Sister of Arenberg, Germany. She works as a Vocation Coach and undertakes the DMin in Preaching-Program at the Aquinas Institute in St. Louis, MO. She lives in a convent of her Congregation in Germany.