BEADS OF JOY 01-21-18
“Preaching The Gospel”
©2018 James Dacey, Jr. OFS
My Friends,
Today’s Gospel: Mark 1:14-20 (Call of The First Disciple)
“Now after John was arrested,
Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of God, and saying, "The time is
fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent, and believe in the
gospel." And passing along by the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew
the brother of Simon casting a net in the sea; for they were fishermen. And
Jesus said to them, "Follow me and I will make you become fishers of
men." And immediately they left their nets and followed him. And going on
a little farther, he saw James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, who
were in their boat mending the nets. And immediately he called them; and they
left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired servants, and followed
him.”
Reflection:
I apologize for today’s delay. I
woke up with a furious crazy headache today. I virtually never get headaches. I
am on this new medication, I only started it Friday; it’s supposed to help me
with my damaged nerves from the strokes. Well, Friday it didn’t agree with me
at all and yesterday I was fine. I take it in the morning and at night. Last night’s
sleep was restless, and I woke feeling horribly dizzy (like a light vertigo feeling) with a pounding headache. I kind
of feel a little better now. Gonna talk to my neurologist tomorrow.
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I love seeing Jesus’ words in the
Gospel. I realize, what we see is a translation and He didn’t speak English; no
matter, I still love opening my Bible and seeing the Gospel pages filled with
red letters of His words. Do you have a Bible with red letter words of Jesus in
the Gospels? One of my Bibles does, and I just get chills when I see it. There
is something so wonderfully spectacular and incredible knowing that I/we can
read the very words that our Lord and Savior said. How does it make you feel?
Back in 1986 I got Chrissy her first Bible, the only Bible she kept for 30
years. I say that because I have many Bibles.
She, like me, loved seeing the red letters of Jesus speaking in her Bible. I cherish her Bible even more now, she used to read it a lot. I can remember many days coming in from work and there she would be, at the kitchen table holding one of the kids, reading her Bible. A truly impressionable blessed memory. I wish I got a picture of her doing that. In my fuzzy memory, I can still see one or more of the kids at the table with her doing their homework, there were drinks and snacks out and Chrissy was all smiles. Christine was always smiling. Sometimes she’d have questions about a scripture (I didn’t always have the answer, but we’d talk about it.), other times she wanted to share what it meant to her. We both loved scripture.
She, like me, loved seeing the red letters of Jesus speaking in her Bible. I cherish her Bible even more now, she used to read it a lot. I can remember many days coming in from work and there she would be, at the kitchen table holding one of the kids, reading her Bible. A truly impressionable blessed memory. I wish I got a picture of her doing that. In my fuzzy memory, I can still see one or more of the kids at the table with her doing their homework, there were drinks and snacks out and Chrissy was all smiles. Christine was always smiling. Sometimes she’d have questions about a scripture (I didn’t always have the answer, but we’d talk about it.), other times she wanted to share what it meant to her. We both loved scripture.
I encourage you to fall in love
with God’s Word. Keep your Bible with you wherever you go. That is why I have more
than one Bible. And that is why I love Bible Study so much, either just me
alone in front of my laptop or in a small group in a living room. I just love
Bible Study. Currently I am in a very long-term Bible Study with Jeff Cavins. Here’s
the intro video, it’s so exciting, even the intro.
The Great Adventure
The Great Adventure
Catholic Bible Study Promo
Pondering these thoughts today: I
love the gospel so much that a couple of decades back I developed this habit of
focusing on the gospels; aside from the day’s gospel reading. I wrote a blog
all about it, the link is directly below this paragraph. If there are 5 books that I wanted to choose from the Bible, that I wanted to emerge into and really be familiar with, they would
be:
-The Gospel of Matthew
-The Gospel of Mark
-The Gospel of Luke
-The Gospel of John
-Acts of The Apostles
Rosary Man’s Gospel Study
LOVE YOU GUYS !!!!
Your brother in Christ Jesus
And His Most Blessed Mother,
Jim (The Rosary Man) Dacey Jr OFS
Today is Sunday: We pray the Glorious Mysteries:
The Glorious Mysteries
1. The Resurrection (Faith) –Mark 16:1-8
2. The Ascension (Hope) –Luke 24:50-53
3. The Descent of the Holy Spirit (Love) –Acts 2:1-4
4. The Assumption of Our Lady
(Grace of a Happy Death) –Rev 12:1-6
5. The Coronation of Mary (Mary’s intercession) –Judith 15:9-10
Glory and Honor and Praise to You Lord Jesus Christ!
Rosary Man Jim's Glorious Reflections: http://beads-of-joy-blog.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-glorious-mysteries.html
