When we turn to Jesus as a foundation for doing ethics, we are presented with a significant challenge, a challenge that is really at the heart of Christian ethics. There is a clear tension between Jesus’ moral teachings...
Read MoreWis 3:1-9 Ps 23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6 Rom 5:5-11 Jn 6:37-40 At Mass this weekend, the priest told a story in his homily of a man who tried to “evangelize” him. It was an uncomfortable story for me, and I imagine many...
Read MoreIsaiah 5:1-7 Psalm 80:9, 12, 13-14, 15-16, 19-20 Philippians 4:6-9 Matthew 21:33-43 I have never preached but I imagine this week’s gospel reading is one that make homilists sigh. I know I did as I read over the readings...
Read MoreEX 33:7-9 PS 95:1-2, 6-7, 8-9 ROM 13:8-10 MT 18:15-20 Here we go with love again in our readings for this week. “Owe nothing to one another,” Paul says in our second reading from Romans, “except to love one...
Read More1 1gs 19:9a, 11-13a Ps 85:9, 10, 11-12, 13-14 Rom 9:1-5 Mt 14:22-33 I just moved to Texas where the question of what to do the thousands of unaccompanied minors crossing the border into our state looms large. More than 50,000...
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