Sunday's Gospel reading - June 20, 2021 edition
Jun 19, 2021 23:42:10 GMT
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Post by Beryllos on Jun 19, 2021 23:42:10 GMT
The Calming of a Storm at Sea
Mk 4:35-41
On that day, as evening drew on, he said to them, “Let us cross to the other side.” Leaving the crowd, they took him with them in the boat just as he was. And other boats were with him. A violent squall came up and waves were breaking over the boat, so that it was already filling up. Jesus was in the stern, asleep on a cushion. They woke him and said to him, “Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?” He woke up, rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Quiet! Be still!” The wind ceased and there was great calm. Then he asked them, “Why are you terrified? Do you not yet have faith?” They were filled with great awe and said to one another, “Who then is this whom even wind and sea obey?”
The boat in a storm is such a great metaphor. The Church is sometimes described as a boat, sometimes called "the bark (or barque) of Peter."
The Catechism uses similar imagery in paragraph 845:
The Church is [...] that bark which "in the full sail of the Lord's cross, by the breath of the Holy Spirit, navigates safely in this world."
