November 26, 2015 - Thanksgiving Day
November 22, 2015 - the 26th Sunday after Pentecost
November 15, 2015: Read, Mark, Learn, and Inwardly Digest. The 25th Sunday after Pentecost
November 8, 2015 - The 24th Sunday after Pentecost
November 1, 2015 - The Feast of All Saints
October 25, 2015 - Giving to Deepen Our Faith - The 22nd Sunday after Pentecost
We have been talking about this Gospel passage for weeks now. Not directly. But indirectly. Since September, we have been in this middle section of Mark's Gospel, in which Jesus has been trying to heal the spiritual blindness of his disciples, his followers, us. And as we have been noting, this middle section of Mark's Gospel has been bookended by two stories of the healing of physical blindness. The first was the healing of the blind man in Bethsaid and the second is today's Gospel about Bartimaeus.