Getting It

We begin down the road, so to speak, towards the cross and the empty tomb where our faith finds its duel footholds: the death of Jesus and the resurrection of Jesus.  The gospel we will be following on Sundays is Mark’s gospel, which is in my top four favorite gospels! :-)

What I love about Mark is how he prods us, the reader.  When Jesus stills the storm and the disciples ask, “Who is this man?”, Mark is asking us if we truly get it.  When Jesus feeds the 5,000 and then the 4,000 and the disciples are not understanding plain Aramaic (they didn’t speak “plain English”), Mark asks us, “Yes, but do you understand?”  

This Lenten season is a wonderful time to really, prayerfully concentrate on the meaning of the cross and the resurrection.  I pray you will not yawn at a well-known story, but instead follow the road Mark lays out for us and get to know this story better!!