THE GOSPEL
Mark 1:14-20“Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men.”
Then they abandoned their nets and followed him.
Jesus called
Simon and Andrew,
fishermen.
It
was
radical.
They dropped their nets.
James and John left their boats,
and also their father,
who was sitting
in a boat
too.
Jesus,
we know
that you are
calling us
also,
(as unlikely a choice as were the fishermen),
to take your word and grace
to everyone.
We want to leave our boats
and drop our nets.
Choose us,
please.
THE FIRST READING
Jonah 3:1-5, 10
The word of the Lord came to Jonah. … So Jonah made ready
and went to Nineveh, according to the Lord’s bidding.
When God called him,
Jonah at first
ran away.
God calls us
to turn to
him
instead
of running away.
Lord,
when we think we have turned
as far and as often
as we can,
help us turn
again.
