Who is Jesus Christ? How can we really know Him? These are questions everyone should ask. The best answers are found in the four Gospels, but how are they to be understood, and applied to our modern lives? Cardinal Schonborn, former student of Pope Benedict XVI and himself a well-known theologian and spiritual teacher, presents his second volume of reflections on the person of Christ, this time as found in the words and images of Jesus as portrayed in the Gospel of Mark. Sunday after Sunday, Cardinal Schonborn, uses the Gospel readings from Mark to bring to light the life of Christ in clear and understandable words.

Christoph Cardinal Schonborn, the Archbishop of Vienna

Introduction	p. 11
Advent and the Christmas Season
First Sunday of Advent: A Successful Advent	p. 17
Second Sunday of Advent: The Origin of the Beginning	p. 20
Third Sunday of Advent: John, Who Prepares the Way	p. 24
Fourth Sunday of Advent: How Can This Be?	p. 27
Christmas Day: Becoming like a Child!	p. 30
Feast of the Holy Family: What Will Become of the Child?	p. 33
Solemnity of Mary the Mother of God: Time for Reflection	p. 37
Second Sunday After Christmas: A Trail of Light Leading Home	p. 40
Epiphany of the Lord: What Gives Me Hope	p. 43
Baptism of the Lord: Through the Year with Mark	p. 46
Ordinary Time
Second Sunday in Ordinary Time: The First Meeting	p. 51
Third Sunday in Ordinary Time: Come! Behind Me!	p. 54
Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time: The First Day of the New Creation	p. 57
Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Come into My Home!	p. 60
Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time: I Will-Be Clean!	p. 63
Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time: The Power to Forgive	p. 66
Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time: A Joyful Fast	p. 69
Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time: What Is Becoming of Sunday?	p. 72
Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Jesus-Stumbling Block	p. 75
Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time: And Yet It Grows	p. 78
Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Faith in the Storm	p. 81
Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Only One Death Should Be Feared	p. 84
Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Do We Know One Another?	p. 88
Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: On Holy Fools	p. 91
Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: A Different Kind of Holiday	p. 94
Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Where Shall We Find the Power?	p. 97
Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: The Bread of Love	p. 100
Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Yes, That's Really How It Is!	p. 103
Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Unacceptable?	p. 106
Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time: Will You Go, Too?	p. 109
Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time: What Comes Out of the Heart	p. 112
Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time: Be Opened!	p. 115
Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time: The Crucified Messiah	p. 118
Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time: A Child in the Midst	p. 121
Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Fighting and Tolerance	p. 124
Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time: Becoming One Flesh	p. 127
Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time: The Camel and the Eye of the Needle	p. 131
Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time: A Downward Career	p. 134
Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Thanks, Bartimaeus!	p. 137
Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time: God's Deputy	p. 140
Thirty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time: What Matters to Jesus	p. 143
Thirty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time: End of the World	p. 146
Christ the King: This Mirror	p. 149
Lent and the Easter Season
First Sunday of Lent: The Wilderness Blossoms	p. 155
Second Sunday of Lent: The Path of Transfiguration	p. 158
Third Sunday of Lent: Cleansing the Temple Today	p. 161
Fourth Sunday of Lent: Part of a Nighttime Conversation	p. 164
Fifth Sunday of Lent: Die and Live, Grain of Wheat!	p. 167
Palm Sunday: The King of Peace Is Coming!	p. 170
Good Friday: A Gaze like No Other	p. 173
Easter Sunday: Woman, Why Are You Weeping?	p. 177
Second Sunday of Easter: Immeasurably Merciful	p. 180
Third Sunday of Easter: Subject Number One: Resurrection	p. 183
Fourth Sunday of Easter: A Shepherd like No Other	p. 186
Fifth Sunday of Easter: The True Vine	p. 189
Sixth Sunday of Easter: A Friend in Spite of It All	p. 192
Ascension of Our Lord: The Sending of the Eleven	p. 195
Seventh Sunday of Easter: The Testament of Jesus	p. 198
Pentecost: Shalom!	p. 201
Feasts in the Church Year
Trinity Sunday: Three in One	p. 207
Corpus Christi: Whose Bread I Eat...	p. 210
Presentation of the Lord: A Festival of Light	p. 213
Exaltation of the Holy Cross: A Saving Sight	p. 217
Dedication of the Lateran Basilica: Feast of the Dedication-Universal	p. 220
Immaculate Conception of Mary: Conception-A Celebration	p. 223
Assumption of Mary: A Blessed Body	p. 226
Saint Peter and Saint Paul: The Human Rock	p. 230
All Saints: A Heavenly Blueprint	p. 233
All Souls: The Hope of All Souls	p. 236
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