THE NOW WORD ON MASS READINGS
for February 25th, 2014
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EVEN before the Church was conceived from the pierced Heart of Jesus and birthed at Pentecost, there was division and infighting.
After 2000 years, not much has changed.
Once again, in today’s Gospel, we see how the Apostles cannot comprehend the mission of Jesus. They have eyes to see, but cannot see; ears to hear, but cannot understand. How often they want to remake Christ’s mission into their own image of what it should be! But He continues to present them with paradox after paradox, contradiction after contradiction…