Greetings on this the Friday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time
Readings: Sir 44:1, 9-13; PS 149:1b-2, 3-4, 5-6a and 9b; Mk 11:11-26
Notes: Sometimes people know the good you do. Sometimes people do not know the good you do.
Our first reading assures us that all those who live rightly are remembered by the Lord.
The fig tree is symbolic of a false or insufficient ‘green’. A false good.
- The false or insufficient green fig tree.
- The cleansing of the Temple is intercalated between the two fig tree story fragments.
- The withered fig tree as it really is.
See study on Mark: https://deacongerrypalermo.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/the-gospel-of-mark-a-study-v3.pdf
Each of us must decide between apparent green and real fruitfulness.
Have faith! Pray the Lord changes us from the false to the true.
First Reading
Through God’s covenant with them their family endures, their posterity, for their sake. And for all time their progeny will endure, their glory will never be blotted out.
Responsorial
The Lord takes delight in his people.
For the LORD loves his people, and he adorns the lowly with victory.
Gospel Acclamation
I chose you from the world, to go and bear fruit that will last, says the Lord.
Gospel
Jesus said to them in reply, “Have faith in God. Amen, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it shall be done for him.
Peace be with you,
Deacon Gerry
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