PRI Reflections on Scripture | Monday of the 5th Week in Ordinary Time

Finding God In Our Hearts with Msgr. Don Fischer · Feb 9, 2026 · 5m

Gospel

Mark 6:53-56

After making the crossing to the other side of the sea,

Jesus and his disciples came to land at Gennesaret

and tied up there.

As they were leaving the boat, people immediately recognized him.

They scurried about the surrounding country

and began to bring in the sick on mats

to wherever they heard he was.

Whatever villages or towns or countryside he entered,

they laid the sick in the marketplaces

and begged him that they might touch only the tassel on his cloak;

and as many as touched it were healed.

Reflection

One of the things that’s clear in the Gospels stories is that…