Sunday Meditation: Repent and Believe in the Gospel

After Jesus is baptized (see last week’s Gospel) by John the Baptist, John’s fortunes “decrease” while Jesus’s begins His ministry.  Today, in gathering some of His disciples, He announces the Kingdom of God.

After John had been arrested,

Jesus came to Galilee proclaiming the gospel of God:

"This is the time of fulfillment.

The kingdom of God is at hand.

Repent, and believe in the gospel."

 

As he passed by the Sea of Galilee,

he saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting their nets into the sea;

they were fishermen.

Jesus said to them,

"Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men."

Then they abandoned their nets and followed him.

He walked along a little farther

and saw James, the son of Zebedee, and his brother John.

They too were in a boat mending their nets.

Then he called them.

So they left their father Zebedee in the boat

along with the hired men and followed him.

~Mk 1:14-20

This week Fr. Joseph Mary of the Capuchin Franciscans makes you feel the full force of Christ’s call to repent. .

 

Fr. Joseph Mary does not seem like an introvert to me, but that may be deceptive.  I had no idea what menudo is.  I never had it.  I looked it up and yuck.  We never do hear how that young man resolved his anger that evening.  Do you think that young man repented?  My intuition tells me he did. 

Meditation: "This is the time of fulfillment.  The kingdom of God is at hand.  Repent, and believe in the gospel."

A clip from The Chosen.