Friends, on this Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, we continue to learn more about what it means to live as a human creature. Specifically, as Tony explains, in our readings this Sunday, we discover that our identities have been given to us together with an accompanying mission that God has entrusted uniquely to each of us. This is seen in the first instance in the fact that Jesus calls the Apostles by name, just as He continues to do with each and every single one of us.
Mass Readings:
Reading 1: Jonah 3:1-5, 10
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 25:4-5, 6-7, 8-9
Reading 2: 1 Corinthians 7:29-31
Gospel: Mark 1:14-20
Tony Crescio is the founder of FRESHImage Ministries. He holds an MTS from the University of Notre Dame and is currently a PhD candidate in Christian Theology at Saint Louis University. His research focuses on the intersection between moral and sacramental theology. His dissertation is entitled, Presencing the Divine: Augustine, the Eucharist and the Ethics of Exemplarity.
Tony’s academic publications can be found here.