The lectionary reading for the Seventh Sunday after Trinity in Year C is the Parable of the Rich Fool in Luke 12.13–21. It is ...

In addition to Mark 1:40, Jesus is also moved with pity for the hungry crowds that follow him into the desert (Mk 6:34; 8:2) and for the family of a boy convulsed by an unclean spirit (Mk 9:22).

JESUS' TEACHING: THE KINGDOM OF GOD The core of Jesus' preaching is the kingdom of God. And the difficulty is for us to hear that term as 100 percent political and 100 percent religious.

The New Testament says those expectations were confirmed when Jesus began his public ministry, teaching crowds and miraculously feeding 5,000 followers near the Sea of Galilee.

The Gospel of Mark (4:1-2) says, “Again Jesus began to teach beside the sea. And a very large crowd gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat in it on the sea; and the whole crowd ...

During one trip in Jericho, Jesus heard two blind men shouting for him, and when the crowd told them to be quiet, Jesus stopped and healed them immediately (Matt. 9:27-31).

The crowds in Alfredo Raimondo’s goat pasture have dwindled to a few hundred each week, but worshipers continue to report seeing visions of Jesus, the Virgin Mary and saints.