tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9137621130464467891.post8923323213181420806..comments2017-12-03T16:00:27.687-07:00Comments on The Catholic Scrapper: The Gospel of Mark Bible Study Chapter 1- 1:1-28Kyrie Drakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05150947810812769507noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9137621130464467891.post-46891803697782418702014-03-15T23:13:34.992-07:002014-03-15T23:13:34.992-07:00The first thing that's struck me during my rea...The first thing that's struck me during my read-through and then during what we talked about during Bible Study was that same question: "who do you say that I am" -- and then the way that I wonder what the answer to that statement means. I spent most of my childhood considering most of the people of Jesus' day as deliberately blind/ignorant -- not truly being able to imagine myself believing in the Old Testament law and having that ingrained picture of the Messiah, and then suddenly seeing this man who taught *in church* with authority all His own, who preached words that would be more important to hear than it was to eat, who was at once so incredibly attractive and so incredibly ordinary. I'm having a great time hearing it all.<br /><br />You did an awesome job summarizing all the things we talked about, and I'm not sure how much I even have to add -- I adore the idea that James and John following Jesus was a prefigurement of the priesthood or the ultimate marriage covenant between Christ and the Church. I enjoyed going through the Lectio Divina method. It's something I've only done on rare occasions before, and never with something like an exorcism (something that's quite frightening for its own sake). I was half-concentrating on the fact that even the demons gravitate toward Jesus -- this man was doing something out of the ordinary, being like, "I shouldn't be here, but" (and the demon doesn't care about human tradition) -- and half-concentrating on the fact that Jesus' words command absolutely everything and this is the kind of strength that cares for us.<br /><br />Thanks again for ALL you do and I'll talk to you soon!Aliciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13662675809481998003noreply@blogger.com