GOD’S WORD

6th Week in Ordinary Time Ps 29:1a & 2, 3ac-4, 3b & 9c-10 1st Reading: Genesis 6:5-8; 7:1-5, 10 Gospel: Mark 8:14-21

One can sympathize with the disciples who often had a hard time judging when Jesus was talking literally or resorting to one of His riddles. These simple men are struggling to keep up, to understand what it means to live in this marvelous human/divine world of their Master, for whom every ordinary fact is a window onto some deeper spiritual truth, for whom bread is not just food, but life, compassion, blessing; where yeast is not just the stuff that makes bread rise, but could be about something that corrupts us from within. “Do you not see and understand?” He asks them. Well, no… not entirely. Not yet.