September 15 – Fire Sunday + Great Bible Giveaway
Death and rebirth are within all the cycles of creation. In today’s gospel Peter says, “You are the Messiah.” In Mark too the scandal has to do with Jesus’ words about his own coming death, and here Peter himself stumbles over Jesus’ words. But Jesus is anointed (the meaning of messiah) in Mark only on the way to the cross (14:3); so we are anointed in baptism with the sign of the cross.
Isaiah 50: 4-9a and Mark 8:27-38
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