This Place is Not Haunted for Me

a post-script homily

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Today’s Gospel (Mk 5.21-43) is one story woven from two. It’s essential to Mark’s style, this technique. He uses it no less than nine times in his Gospel. The pattern is distinct: one story begins, another intercedes, then the initial story resumes and concludes. At the Gospel's end (Mk 15:40-16:8), the devotion of the women at the cross and tomb is mo…