July 2010

Today’s Gospel can make for uncomfortable reading. Many of us have worked hard to earn what we have today. Yet the man in the parable is held up as an example of wasting time by building up his impressive stash of grain and goods. Is Jesus telling us we shouldn’t save up? Is he telling […]

Today’s readings tell us that our God is an approachable God – both Father and friend. Even as the outraged Lord of the Old Testament prepared to punish Sodom and Gomorrah for the wickedness of their inhabitants, Abraham was able to negotiate with Him. And in today’s Gospel, Jesus suggests a way of praying that

That famous teaching of Jesus on the “one thing necessary” was given at Bethany, at the house of Martha and Mary, in the Gospel we hear today. The two sisters, Martha and Mary, are two very different characters, with two very different temperaments. One is active, the other passive. One is busy doing; the other,

To be rejected for whatever reason always causes suffering to the one rejected. The Samaritan is Jesus’ parable would have known what it was like to be rejected. Samaria had been the ancient center of Israel. But the Samaritans were descended from immigrants who had settled in Samaria, and the Jewish people looked on them

Although St. Luke doesn’t tell us any of the name of the seventy-two whom Jesus sent out ahead of Him, they must have been an impressive body of people. They had such faith in Jesus’ word that they were prepared to do exactly what He asked them. They were to be trailblazers, seventy-two pioneers, all