First Great Commandment

Homily for the 8 o’clock Mass, 3 November 2024, Sunday 31B: Mark 12:28-34

Also St. Margaret’s Forres

Today's Gospel comes as a brief moment of relief amid the tension and foreboding of St. Mark's Gospel narrative. The episode is set in Holy Week, after Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem, to cries of Hosanna. Before and after it we read only of bitter confrontation between Jesus and the Jewish authorities.