More than a metaphor
Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time – October 20, 2024 In Mark’s Gospel, the language about the cross and what it requires is violent and unambiguous. Jesus will suffer greatly and be rejected, killed,... Read More
Doing the impossible
Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time – October 13, 2024 Does Jesus want us to sell everything we have to inherit eternal life? Or is this another hyperbole to get our attention? Recall that... Read More
God gives us one another
Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time – October 6, 2024 Hopefully no one in their homily last week advocated for self-harm or mutilation as an actual response to human weakness. We do not interpret... Read More
Boundless mercy
Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time – September 29, 2024 To really understand today’s Gospel and Jesus’s over-the-top rant, read the verses of Numbers 11 that lead up to today’s first reading pericope. Moses... Read More
Be last to be first
Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time – September 22, 2024 Last week Jesus left us with this paradox: Lose your life to save it. He continues this week saying that to be first, one... Read More
Courageous Followers
Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time – September 15, 2024 Look up a 2010 TED Talk called “How to Start a Movement.” In it, author and entrepreneur Derek Sivers analyzes a three-minute home video... Read More
Being open
Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time – September 8, 2024 Have you ever been so frightened that your body shuts down? When fear turns to panic, a deafening “woosh” clogs your ears as your... Read More
Necessary discernment
Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time – September 1, 2024 Jesus calls the Pharisees in today’s Gospel hypocrites. If we read the verses omitted from the Lectionary pericope, we see why. The Pharisees routinely... Read More