Welcome to SEASON TWO

1. Welcome toSEASON TWO SALT SALT - Scripture and Leadership Training Office of Evangelization & Worship

2. SALT Session 6 DEATH ANDRESURRECTION “You seek Jesus of Nazareth, the crucified, He has been raised.”Mark 16:6 SALT - Scripture and Leadership Training Office of Evangelization & Worship

3. Welcome Gather Introductions SALT - Scripture and Leadership Training Office of Evangelization & Worship

4. Goals • Text: to increase understanding of how Mark uses literary devices to proclaim the passion as good news • Spiritual: to discover the spirituality that emerges from the Markan passion narrative • Action: to call students of Mark’s Gospel (followers of Jesus) to enter more fully into the Paschal Mystery. SALT - Scripture and Leadership Training Office of Evangelization & Worship

5. Leadership Focus • The Power-full stage, continued • Concerns • How can we best preserve quiet time for prayer? • Tasks: Small Group, Hospitality, Prayer • Think about other groups you have experienced • What worked • What didn’t work • Facilitator / Recorder Tasks • 10 minute evaluation with facilitators/recorders SALT - Scripture and Leadership Training Office of Evangelization & Worship

6. Review Session 5 • Discipleship as it is presented in Mark’s Gospel • Key images of: • Blindness/Sight • Journey • The Cross • Challenges presented in the model of the suffering servant SALT - Scripture and Leadership Training Office of Evangelization & Worship

7. Opening Prayer SALT - Scripture and Leadership Training Office of Evangelization & Worship

8. Small Group SALT - Scripture and Leadership Training Office of Evangelization & Worship

9. Break 10 Minutes SALT - Scripture and Leadership Training Office of Evangelization & Worship

10. THE GOSPEL OF MARK Jesus in Jerusalem and The Passion SALT - Scripture and Leadership Training Office of Evangelization & Worship

11. Structure of Gospel (Part 2)(La Verdiere) The Passion The Conspiracy 14:1-11 Betrayal & Arrest 14:12-52 Trial & Condemnation 14:53-15:15 Torture & Death 15:16-41 Burial & Resurrection 15:42-16:8 Silence of the Women 16:8 Jesus in Jerusalem Jesus Enters Jerusalem 11:1-11 Cursing of Fig Tree/Cleansing of Temple 11:12-25 (26) Jesus Challenges Temple Authorities 11:27-12:44 Jesus & Destruction of Temple 13:1-37 Discipleship as Journey Jesus Heals Blind 8:22-26 Who Is Jesus? 8:27-31 Passion Proclamation 8:31-10:52 Jesus Heals Blind 10:46-52 SALT - Scripture and Leadership Training Office of Evangelization & Worship

12. Jesus in Jerusalem (Literary Technique of Chiastic Construction) • A (11:1-11) Mount of Olives and Messianic Entry into Jerusalem • B (11:12-26) Cleansing of Temple and Cursing of Fig Tree • B’ (13:1-2) Leaving the Temple and announcing its destruction • A’ (13:3-37) Mount of Olives and announcement of Son of Man in Glory all in three days SALT - Scripture and Leadership Training Office of Evangelization & Worship

13. Historical Background-Jesus’ Day • Jews had special exemption from emperor worship and wanted to keep it. • Passover (the feast of liberation) was a time of pilgrimage to Jerusalem-crowded city. • Romans alert for charismatic leaders who would incite the crowds. • Jewish leadership worried about safety of their people if there were an uprising. • The Temple was the center of the world and hope for the Messiah centered on Temple SALT - Scripture and Leadership Training Office of Evangelization & Worship

14. Historical Background-Mark’s Day • Christians of Jewish and gentile origin still affiliated with synagogue, studied Torah and writings. • Eucharist celebrated in house churches on the Lord’s day • Because of the changing nature of the Christian communities tensions grew between the groups. • Destruction of the temple in 70 and identity crisis among Jewish communities. • Ultimately, Christians thrown out of synagogue and subject to Roman persecution. See Revelation. SALT - Scripture and Leadership Training Office of Evangelization & Worship

15. JESUS ENTERS JERUSALEM Via Bethpage and Bethany on the Mount of Olives Zechariah 9:9 Psalm 118 I Maccabees 13:47-52 Hosanna = joyous acclamation (grant salvation) SALT - Scripture and Leadership Training Office of Evangelization & Worship

16. THE FIG TREE AND THE CLEANSING OF THE TEMPLE (Markan Sandwich Again) The failure of the leadership to adequately pass on God’s message. Though abundant with “leaves” the faith was no longer bearing “fruit” to satisfy spiritual “hunger”. The failure of the leadership to recognize Jesus Cleansing of Temple associated with restoration of the kingship of Israel Jer 7:11 Isaiah 56:7 Back to fig tree (11:21) and sayings on faith & forgiveness and avoiding the fate of the fig tree SALT - Scripture and Leadership Training Office of Evangelization & Worship

17. Application: The Fig Tree and the Cleansing of the Temple • As disciples of Jesus are we life giving for others? • Are we welcoming and inclusive? • Is our “Temple” a house of prayer? • Do we worship with full, active and conscious participation? • Do we work on reconciling with others and with God? SALT - Scripture and Leadership Training Office of Evangelization & Worship

18. FIVE CONTROVERSIES (interspersed with parables) • John the Baptist and where authority comes from. • The coin and the authority of State and of God • The Sadducees about resurrection • The Great Commandment • The Messiah as son of David. (The Vineyard and the Widow’s Mite) SALT - Scripture and Leadership Training Office of Evangelization & Worship

19. Application:The Five Controversies • Jesus’ authority will always surpass that of “leaders” and we who follow Jesus are called to speak out when a leader abuses authority. • What authority do we have to act as disciples of Jesus? • The love & power of God surpasses all governments. • Be alert to someone who uses doctrine or scripture to trick, frighten, or further their own agenda. • The Great Commandment in Hebrew Bible- Deut.6:4-5, Lev.19:18 SALT - Scripture and Leadership Training Office of Evangelization & Worship

20. The Parable of the Vineyard Farmer = God Tenants = Religious Leaders Vineyard = People of Israel Servants = Prophets Son = Jesus SALT - Scripture and Leadership Training Office of Evangelization & Worship

21. The Widow’s Mite • This is NOT an exhortation to give more money! • Condemnation of piety without substance • Warning against exploitation of the poor • Example of letting go of security to commit one’s life to God in trust. SALT - Scripture and Leadership Training Office of Evangelization & Worship

22. Back to the Mount of Olives: Prediction of Destruction of Temple The Eschatological Discourse • “eschatological” = concerning the “end times” or “the last things” • The Last Things = death, resurrection, judgment, reward and punishment, afterlife • Apocalyptic = a specific type of writing evident in the Old Testament and popular in the first century • Best example: The Book of Revelation SALT - Scripture and Leadership Training Office of Evangelization & Worship

23. Apocalyptic Literature • Written with an eye to the future about things happening in the present • Highly symbolic language complete with monsters, disasters and cosmic events • To imagine the unimaginable and to express the unexpressable • New Testament apocalyptic based on Old Testament imagery • Written to give hope in the midst of suffering and comfort in distress • To assure the reader that suffering will end and Good will triumph over Evil SALT - Scripture and Leadership Training Office of Evangelization & Worship

24. Jesus’ Discourse • 13:5-13 beware Jesus impersonators, great persecutions, natural disasters, family division. They are the “birth pangs” of a new way (a new season, a blooming fig tree). • 13.14-23 The Great Tribulation, the abomination of desolation (Antiochus and Caligula or any desecration) • 13:24-27 Cosmic Happenings, the vindication of the elect and the coming of the Son of Man (essential for the Day of the Lord) • 13:28-37 Have confidence in God’s plan, be vigilant, don’t be misled. We know not the day nor the hour. SALT - Scripture and Leadership Training Office of Evangelization & Worship

25. Jesus’ Discourse • Images taken from Isaiah, Ezekiel, Joel. • To counter belief that the end was near. It is not the end but the beginning. However… • To assure believers that their suffering is not in vain. • To assure Mark’s people and all people that Jesus will prevail. SALT - Scripture and Leadership Training Office of Evangelization & Worship

26. Application: This life and all of its complexities and all of its problems in all of the ages is not meaningless. It is an opportunity to grow in faith, to serve the Lord, to help give birth to His Kingdom. This life, no matter how difficult, can lead us to new life through Jesus and at some time, we know not when, we will be taken into the fullness of the Kingdom. SALT - Scripture and Leadership Training Office of Evangelization & Worship

27. Structure(La Verdiere) The Passion The Conspiracy 14:1-11 Betrayal & Arrest 14:12-52 Trial & Condemnation 14:53-15:15 Torture & Death 15:16-41 Burial & Resurrection 15:42-16:8 Silence of the Women 16:8 Jesus in Jerusalem Jesus Enters Jerusalem 11:1-11 Cursing of Fig Tree/Cleansing of Temple 11:12-25 (26) Jesus Challenges Temple Authorities 11:27-12:44 Jesus & Destruction of Temple 13:1-37 Discipleship as Journey Jesus Heals Blind 8:22-26 Who Is Jesus? 8:27-31 Passion Proclamation 8:31-10:52 Jesus Heals Blind 10:46-52 SALT - Scripture and Leadership Training Office of Evangelization & Worship

28. Themes: • Devotion and Betrayal • Intertwining of Old and New • New Life/Resurrection SALT - Scripture and Leadership Training Office of Evangelization & Worship

29. Devotion and Betrayal • Woman who anoints Jesus vs Judas and the conspiracy • The crowds who welcome and the crowds who betray. Who is “the crowd”? • Jesus’ devotion and Peter’s denial • Simon, Joseph, the centurion and the women at the crucifixion and the disciples who abandon SALT - Scripture and Leadership Training Office of Evangelization & Worship

30. Intertwining of Old and New: • Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread; the Eucharist and Jesus’ broken body • Moses sprinkling the blood of the covenant (Ex24:5-8); the Eucharist and Jesus’ blood • Jesus’ identity with the righteous man who suffers and the suffering servant in Is 53:6-7, Psalm 22 (words from cross), Zechariah. • The tearing of the Temple veil removes any barriers to God through Jesus. Darkness see Amos 8:9. SALT - Scripture and Leadership Training Office of Evangelization & Worship

31. New Life/Resurrection: • The promise of eternal life through Jesus • A new life on earth through Jesus • New beginnings through repentance and reconciliation (Peter and the Disciples) • New life in the Eucharist • New life with one another as brothers and sisters in God’s human family SALT - Scripture and Leadership Training Office of Evangelization & Worship

32. THE LAST (LORD”S) SUPPER Take – Blessed – Broke – Gave - Said: The Institution of the Eucharist Note: “I will go before you to Galilee” SALT - Scripture and Leadership Training Office of Evangelization & Worship

33. THE AGONY IN THE GARDEN: UNITED WITH OUR SUFFERING Connection to psalms of lamentation, unites Jesus’ agony with the agony of all who suffer. SALT - Scripture and Leadership Training Office of Evangelization & Worship

34. THE TRIAL BEFORE THE SANHEDRIN • False Testimony – attempts to accuse Jesus of threatening to destroy Temple • High Priest tries to make Jesus testify against himself – he admits to being the son of the Blessed One • Condemnation of Jesus and mocking but at the second coming the positions of the accuser and the accused will be reversed • Of what was Jesus finally accused? SALT - Scripture and Leadership Training Office of Evangelization & Worship

35. THE TRIAL BEFORE PILATE & DENIAL OF PETER • What was Jesus charged with? • Who had full legal responsibility for Jesus’ crucifixion? • Why does Mark make him sound so innocent? • Who reads the part of the crowds when the passion is read? SALT - Scripture and Leadership Training Office of Evangelization & Worship

36. Crucifixion & Death SALT - Scripture and Leadership Training Office of Evangelization & Worship

37. Burial and Resurrection • Meaning for followers in Mark’s day and in ours – the significance of baptism- dying and rising with Christ -a daily challenge to which each recommits with Eucharist • Apologetic functions SALT - Scripture and Leadership Training Office of Evangelization & Worship

38. The Ending(s) • Mark’s powerful ending at 16:8 leaves us still thinking, still participating, sent back to where it all began. • Additions of the early Church give insights into the growing community, the development of Church doctrine. SALT - Scripture and Leadership Training Office of Evangelization & Worship

39. Conclusion: For Mark, Jesus was the son of God, the suffering servant of Yaweh: We tend to find God in our lives in the good and beautiful and in his bounty to us: perhaps we can learn to find Him also there with us in our suffering and not only in the blessings we receive from Him but also in the blessings we bestow upon others. SALT - Scripture and Leadership Training Office of Evangelization & Worship

40. We learn from the Disciples that no matter how deep our betrayal we may all begin again. Resurrection took place at sunrise on the first day, the day of creation and after resurrection Jesus returned to Galilee – back to the beginning. If you want a new beginning meet Jesus wherever you are. He will be waiting. Just follow where he leads…. Mark 1:1 The beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ the son of God SALT - Scripture and Leadership Training Office of Evangelization & Worship

41. ACTION • Reflect on the challenges of • Entering more fully into the Paschal Mystery • Focus passages for next week: • Exodus 12; Mark 8:31-33, 9:30-32, 10:32-34; Romans 6:1-11; 1 Corinthians 15:1-11; 2 Corinthians 4:7-18; Philippians 2:5-11 SALT - Scripture and Leadership Training Office of Evangelization & Worship

42. CLOSING PRAYER SALT - Scripture and Leadership Training Office of Evangelization & Worship