David Baumann

Daily Devotional • October 5 A Reading from Acts 22:17-29 22 Up to this point they listened to him, but then they shouted, “Away with such...

Daily Devotional • October 4 A Reading from Luke 6:27-38 27 “But I say to you who are listening: Love your enemies; do good to those...

Daily Devotional • October 3 A Reading from Luke 6:12-26 12 Now during those days he went out to the mountain to pray, and he spent...

Daily Devotional • October 2 A Reading from Acts 21:15-26 15 After these days we got ready and started to go up to Jerusalem. 16 Some...

Daily Devotional • October 1 A Reading from Luke 5:27-39 27 After this he went out and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the...

Daily Devotional • September 30 The Feast of St. Michael and All Angels A Reading from Luke 6:1-11 1 One Sabbath while Jesus was going through some...

Daily Devotional • September 29 A Reading from Matthew 13:44-52 44 “The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found...

Daily Devotional • September 14 Holy Cross Day A Reading from John 11:45-54 45 Many of the Jews, therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen...

Daily Devotional • September 13 A Reading from John 11:30-44 30 Now Jesus had not yet come to the village but was still at the place...

Mary and Martha’s traditional roles in Luke are here reversed. It is Martha who is with Jesus while Mary is absent, surely out of complicated anger. The sisters’ anger is palpable, though not specifically described. Mary comes when called; but when she does, she confronts Jesus with the same words that Martha had used. “If you had been here, my brother would not have died.”