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Back to SearchThe Generous Landowner
The parable that Jesus tells in our Gospel for today is one of his most disturbing and confounding. Giving the same wage to those who worked for one …
20 years, 7 months ago
Seventy Times Seven Times
Our capacity to forgive others is tightly linked to our realization that we have been forgiven by God. When we try to justify an ethic of radical for…
20 years, 8 months ago
Offer Your Bodies as a Living Sacrifice
Paul tells the Christians in Rome to offer their bodies as a living sacrifice of praise. I suggest that this Pauline image provides a very good conte…
20 years, 8 months ago
Testing Our Faith
The idea of testing faith is a common one in the Bible. Abraham's faith was tried on Mt. Moriah, as was Jacob's and Joseph's. The Gospel story of the…
20 years, 8 months ago
Walking on the Water
Often in the Bible, water functions as a symbol of chaos and sin: the waters at the beginning of creation, the waters of the Red Sea, the waters of N…
20 years, 9 months ago
The Loop of Grace
It all begins with grace, and it all ends with grace. Bernanos' country priest summed up Christianity with the phrase "Toute est grace," everything i…
20 years, 9 months ago
Both the Old and the New
At the conclusion of chapter 13 of Matthew's Gospel, the chapter of parables, Jesus says, "the scribe who is learned in the Kingdom of God is like th…
20 years, 9 months ago
The Mystery of the Wheat and the Weeds
In our Gospel for today, we hear the parable of the wheat and the tares. Jesus speaks of the mysterious, and often frustrating, intertwining of good …
20 years, 9 months ago
The Irresistable Word
Our first reading, from the prophet Isaiah, shows that God's word is not so much descriptive as creative: it produces what it says. In the very intel…
20 years, 10 months ago
Zechariah's Strange Prophecy
We hear in our first reading from the prophet Zechariah. This post-exilic figure is trying to reassure the people that their Messiah will come and wi…
20 years, 10 months ago