12B24.   Job 38:1, 8-11.  Our God is the almighty, all-powerful G awesome God.  Look into the minutest atom or out to the farthest points of the unknown universe.  There is the magnificence of our all-wondrous God!

Mark 4:35-41.   The squall was so violent that the waves were already breaking over the boat and already filling it up.  Jesus was so deeply asleep that it was not the storm but the disciples who had to awaken him.  Jesus rebuked the violence of the wind, overpowering the sea, “Quiet! Be still!” “The wind ceased and there was great calm.”  In a turnabout, Jesus put raging nature to sleep with the supernatural.  What else could his disciples say but, “Who then is this whom even wind and sea obey?” We say to glory of God in the Mass: “We praise you, we bless you, we adore you, we glorify you, we give you thanks for your great glory.”

2 Corinthians 5:14-17.  The Holy Spirit imbues us with the love of Christ that in turn impels us to become a new creation.  Jesus died that we might live infinitely more than an earthly life of the flesh but a life in which Christ is our life.