Nineteenth Sunday After Trinity Mark 2:1-12

NINETEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY My son, your sins are forgiven. Mark 2:5 + How strange! Do you think this sick man and the people that carried him hoped to hear something else? Jesus saw their faith. It was as apparent as it could be. They had elbowed their way through the streets. The alley outside the house was so crowded with people they couldn't come any closer, so they climbed up onto one of the flat roofs near the house and carried their friend from roof to roof until they were right above the spot where Jesus was talking. There they tore away the plaster on the roof, removed the twigs and branches between the beams and created a hole big enough to allow them to lower the man down on his mattress. All of this with the assurance that the Man do ... continue reading