Among the many problems facing Americans today one is often overlooked: we seem to have forgotten how to forgive one another, how to be reconciled in a...
The Gospel for the 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time follows directly on last Sunday’s Gospel, continuing our reflection on Matthew 16. Indeed, ... Read more about The Cost of Discipleship
It might be enough for us simply to read and meditate on the core of the Gospel for this 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time, August 2, a beautiful passage which Matthew (like Luke) largely takes over from Mark 6:
There is plenty of misery to go around in July 2020: Covid 19, systemic racial injustice showing its ugliness for all to see, callous indifference to the vulnerable from...
Many of us have lots of time on our hands these days, and nowhere to go; this is a stay at home summer for so many of us (even those blessed with a job and a roof over our heads, and good...
One of the challenges of the Common Lectionary followed by the Catholic and other Christian communities is that the assigned readings for Sundays — over a three year cycle — are not...
Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. (Matthew 11.28-29)
Many of us have lots of time on our hands these days, and nowhere to go; this is a stay at home summer for so many of us (even those blessed with a job and a roof over our heads, and good...
