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Podcast: Your Grace is Sufficient
Episode: Gospel and Homily for the Memorial of the Beheading of St John the Baptist
Description: Memorial of the Beheading of St John the Baptist
Mark 6:17-29
Herod sent to have John arrested, and had him chained up in prison because of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife whom he had married. For John had told Herod, ‘It is against the law for you to have your brother’s wife.’ As for Herodias, she was furious with him and wanted to kill him; but she was not able to, because Herod was afraid of John, knowing him to be a good and holy man, and gave him his protection. When he had heard him speak he was grea...