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Build up others this Lent with your thoughts on the Sunday Mass readings and meditation. Three questions for reflection and discussion will be offered for each of the six Sundays during Lent. Please pray through the questions and share your insights or what the Lord spoke to you in the comments area below. Your words will inspire others in The Word Among Us community and encourage them during this grace-filled season.
Meditation & Questions on Mark 14:1-15:47
Wherever the gospel is proclaimed … what she has done will be told in memory of her. (Mark 14:9)
This is a story of extravagance. The woman chose a very expensive perfume—spikenard—that came all the way from India and poured it on the head of an itinerant rabbi from the backwater of Nazareth. Why?
Jesus gives us a clue: “She has anticipated anointing my body for burial” (Mark 14:8). Somehow, this woman knew what Jesus was about to go through and why he was going through with it—and she wanted to honor him in the highest way possible. She was so moved by the sacrifice that he would make for her and for the whole world that she felt compelled to pour her most precious possession on him in…
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