Proper 22 Year B
Taken from Lectionary Reflections - Year B
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Proper 22
Genesis 2. 18-24
Hebrews 1.14; 2.5-12
Mark 10.2-16
It is very tempting to go straight for the second half of the passage from Mark’s Gospel set for today, and just speculate, if possible with some sentimentality, about what Jesus meant by ‘theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven’. After all, the two halves of today’s reading may not be very directly related – it may just be that the author thought, ‘A saying about marriage and a saying about children go well together.’ And it is endlessly fascinating to think about what particular quality children have that makes them such suitable inheritors of the Kingdom. But I think the two paragraphs may have more of a common theme than immediately emerges...
Taken from Lectionary Reflections – Year B by Jane Williams