Month: February 2015

Lent: a time of grace

In the Gospel for the First Sunday of Lent (Mark 1:12-15) we read how Jesus was driven by the Holy Spirit to enter the wilderness of the desert for forty days and forty nights, where he was tempted by Satan….

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The healing power of God

In the scripture passage from Saint Mark’s Gospel (Mark 1:40-45) we have the account of the meeting between Jesus and the leper. In the time of Jesus lepers were ridiculed, they were forced to live apart in social isolation as…

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