+(Intro) Today we have the memorial of St Boniface, the renowned missionary to Germany. St Paul reminds us in our first reading to remain faithful to what we have learned and believed. Boniface did this at the cost of his own life so let us be mindful of any sins and failings of our own.
(After the gospel) In our gospel we have Jesus undermining the thinking of the scribes who claimed the Messiah, the Christ was to be the son of David. The crowd found Jesus’ questioning this thinking of the scribes by quoting from psalm 109, to be a delight.
Because of what Jesus was doing in their midst, the crowd seemed to have intuited that Jesus was far more than someone out of David’s bloodline, someone truly gifted by God. They sensed Jesus to be the long awaited one, far more than a mere human descendant.
The long-awaited one continues to come ever anew among us as we celebrate this Eucharist. Let us be filled with delight, ever grateful for the Christ’s saving presence among us.
2Tim 3:10-17; Mark 12:35-37