An important if very short extract from Mark’s gospel today: John the baptist has been arrested by Herod and that triggers Jesus into beginning his ministry. To start it, he attracts his first followers to join him on the journey that will lead him and them to Jerusalem. The trouble for him and them is only beginning as they try to understand what they’ve been called to embrace in their following of Jesus.

About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.

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