The Catholic Calendar for Saturday, January 21, 2006
Saturday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time
St Agnes, virgin and martyr

Scripture from today's Liturgy of the Word:
2 Samuel 1:1-4, 11-12, 19, 23-27
Psalm 80:2-3, 5-7
Mark 3:20-21

A reflection on today's Sacred Scripture:

"He is out of His Mind. . .” (Mark 3:21)

Yes, perhaps He is, and praise God for it!

For Jesus to be out of His mind He had to reject hatred, blood-feuds, starving the elderly to death because you have dedicated your money to God, sacrificing children, and any number of commonplaces of His time.

For Jesus to be out of His mind He had to talk about a God who was a personal father to each person. He had to preach about a God who loved each individual as though he or she were an only child.

For Jesus to be out of His mind He had to tell people that their lives were disordered, that their loves were disordered, that they needed to rethink who and what they were.

For Jesus to be out of His mind He had to be ready to do everything God asked Him to do including dying. Dying an ignominious and terrible death for a bunch of people who didn't like Him, love Him, or care about Him or each other.

Praise God--because Jesus' insanity is the only way to be sane. If Jesus were indeed out of His mind, so let it be for me.

- JuandelaCruz
(sriddle415 at yahoo dot com)

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