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Mo Nguyen
TWELFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME – YEAR B
20TH JUNE 2021
JESUS SAVING PRESENCE
BREAKING OPEN THE WORD
JESUS SAVING PRESENCE (Mark 4: 35-41)
For the people of Israel, the creation of the world was the act of bringing order where there had been chaos. Like other people of the ancient near east, they believed that the primary symbol of all that was uncontrolled and beyond our power was that of the ocean and darkness. Job speaks of how it is God who marks out the limits of the waters that would engulf humanity, waters that once were given their sway in the flood. The act of creation is one where chaos is forced to retreat, where God’s creative and ordering power gives us a place where we can live in safety. The story of Jesus calming the storm on the lake was to become a powerful means for early Christians to express their belief in Jesus as sharing in this creative power of God. The disciples are brought face to face with their desperate need for the saving presence of their Master. It is Jesus’ powerful word that now brings peace where a storm raged and threatened to overcome them.
Paul is overwhelmed, not by storms and waves that would engulf him, but by the love of God which has been poured into our hearts in Jesus. He has come to see in Jesus’ life given for us the means by which we are brought into a new creation. Jesus is the one who has overcome all that would keep us from being truly alive. In the face of his boundless and creative love, even the power of death is bowed and silenced.
CHRISTOPHER MONAGHAN CP
JESUS, (Vietnamese), Jesus Calms the Storm:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLQhW7iEcmk
'The Storm On The Sea Of Galilee' By Rembrandt van Rijn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0JQ0f2AvQ
Thánh Ca | Cho Con Vững Tin - LM Nguyễn Sang [Video Lyrics]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br9SULQntG4