13 Feb 2020
Holy Confrontation
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For 13 February 2020, Thursday of week 5 in Ordinary Time, based on Mark 7:24-30
Jesus set out and went away to the region of Tyre. He entered a house and did not want anyone to know he was there. Yet he could not escape notice, but a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him, and she came and bowed down at his feet. Now the woman was a Gentile, of Syrophoenician origin. She begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter. He said to her, “Let the children be fed first, for it is not fair to take the children’s food and throw it to the dogs.†But she answered him, “Sir, even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.†Then he said to her, “For saying that, you may go—the demon has left your daughter.†So she went home, found the child lying on the bed, and the demon gone.
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.
13 February 2020 @ 11:46 pm
“Faith worth fighting for†this gives me pause. Thank you
14 February 2020 @ 7:22 am
I understand that “fighting” can be a negative word but it can also connote energy in the face of timidity or passive acceptance or business as usual or, and this was my meaning, feisty insistence on the good, regardless of the outcome.