Wednesday, February 8, 2017
5TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME, YEAR I
MARK 7:14-23
Bishop Robert Barron writes:
"Friends, in today’s Gospel Jesus explains that sinful behavior flows from within our hearts. How often the Bible speaks of the “heart.” By that it means the core of the self, the deepest center of who we are, that place from which our thoughts and actions arise. God wants to penetrate that heart.... We are made in the image and likeness of God, but that image can be so distorted by sin as to be barely recognizable.... We are all capable of dark and evil acts. I’m not OK and neither are you. ... [Sin] grows like a fungus or like a cancer.
"Have our hearts become hardened, so that God cannot get in? Is there a deep resistance in us to grace?"
For Bishop Barron's reflection in its entirety, click here:
http://dailycatholicgospel.com/get-reflections.
