When the angel appeared to Mary and she responded with "I am the Lord's servant. May everything you have said about me come true," did she really know what she was agreeing to? When the angel said, "Greetings, you who are highly favoured! The Lord is with you," was the Lord really with her? In all the trouble, in the heart-break? What about our own lives? Are trials and trouble a sign that God is not with us? Au contraire! Quite the opposite! They are there to prove the genuineness of our faith if we too are favoured by God.
Do you wear glasses or contact lenses? Mike asks "Were you born wearing them?" Looking at Mark's gospel where Jesus healed a blind man,...
Do you like fast food? Did somebody say, "Just Eat"? Mike looks at the account of Jesus and fast food in Mark's gospel chapter...
Mike O'Donovan
