Daily Mass Gospel Reflection- "Have you not Faith yet?"

Word on Fire Ministry ^ | 01.29.22 | Aux. Bishop R. Barron

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Third Week in Ordinary Time

Mark 4:35-41

Friends, the story at the heart of our Gospel for today is the storm at sea. Karl Barth said that the stormy waters in all of these cases stand for das Nichtige, the nothing, that which stands opposed to God’s creative intentions—difficulties both interior and exterior, difficulties physical, psychological, and spiritual.

The disciples in the boat are, as I’ve often said, evocative of the Church, making its way through time and space. And those waters are symbolic of everything that besets the members of the Church. To stay within the emotional space of the story, this must have been a terrible storm to have terrified experienced sailors. This is no small problem, no minor difficulty.

Do you know the de profundis prayer? It comes from Psalm 130:

“Out of the depths, I have cried to you, O Lord. O Lord, be attentive to the voice of my pleading.”

It is the prayer we should offer at the darkest times of life, when we find ourselves lost and in the shadow of death, when, in our desperation, we feel utterly incapable of helping ourselves.

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+++ On that day, as evening drew on,
Jesus said to his disciples:
“Let us cross to the other side.”
Leaving the crowd, they took Jesus
with them in the boat just as he
was.
And other boats were with him.
A violent squall came up and waves
were breaking over the boat,
so that it was already filling up.
Jesus was in the stern, asleep on a
cushion.
They woke him and said to him,
“Teacher, do you not care that we
are perishing?”
He woke up,
rebuked the wind,
and said to the sea, “Quiet! Be
still!”
The wind ceased and there was great
calm.
Then he asked them, “Why are you
terrified?
Do you not yet have faith?”

They were filled with great awe and
said to one another,
“Who then is this whom even wind and sea obey?”+++

[ebb tide]

Karl Barth was a Calvinist. Why must Bobby Barron always source non-Catholics to make his point.

Is Barron really a “Catholic”?

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