Leading Like Jesus

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For 28 January 2024, The Fourth Sunday of Ordinary Time, and the Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas, based on Mark 1:21–28

Jesus and his disciples went to Capernaum; and when the sabbath came, he entered the synagogue and taught. They were astounded at his teaching, for he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes. Just then there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit, and he cried out, ‘What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are, the Holy One of God.’ But Jesus rebuked him, saying, ‘Be silent, and come out of him!’ And the unclean spirit, throwing him into convulsions and crying with a loud voice, came out of him. They were all amazed, and they kept on asking one another, ‘What is this? A new teaching—with authority! He commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him.’ At once his fame began to spread throughout the surrounding region of Galilee.


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.