General. The week’s bustle and of any particular hectic time we might be going through at times makes us lose our faith in God, thinking that God has forgotten us. We might even possibly turn to those idols which ultimately render our life miserable. Yet Sunday Mass is a sacred time during which we might recuperate all lost energy by putting our hope in the Lord and in the same Faith we have received as a gift from the Father in our Baptism.

Joshua. When the spiritual leaders of the Jews saw that the people were following other gods, they put the question to them in no uncertain terms whom they wanted to follow. At that instant, the Jews recalled the wonders wrought by God with them when taking them with raised arm out of the land of Egypt. They then swore to keep on serving him as their only God throughout all their lives.

Ephesians. St Paul sees the union between Christ, who is the head, and his Church, the rest of the body, in the same light as the union between husband and wife in Christian marriage. The message in the reading encourages all Christians, married and unmarried alike, to discern their real calling within the Church Christ has founded on earth.

St Mark. Simon Peter is aware that Jesus is the Word and that in his words there is to be found life everlasting. Both he and the other disciples do not depart from Jesus after he utters his words on the living bread, recognizing that he is the Holy One of God, and believing in him as such. To us too, faith gives us the strength not to oppose or reject God’s commandments saying they are hard to keep. More than that, it fortifies us to have the courage to open our ears and listen to God’s Word as true disciples would.

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