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There are only a few Sundays left before the new liturgical year, and so we hear readings about time. Matthew’s community was interested in the end time, when the Kingdom would arrive and the Lord would return in glory. Within that picture they were interested in judgment — the eternal…
Saints make mistakes. I just finished reading the historical fiction Wolf Hall trilogy. In it, St. Thomas More, of A Man for All Seasons movie fame, opposes Henry VIII’s divorce and ascension to head of the Church of England. But More also is portrayed, with some historical facticity, as condoning…
One of the untrue and biased things we Catholics used to hear was that the Old Testament (and the Jewish religion of Jesus’ day) was based on law, while the New Testament was based on love. In today’s Gospel, Jesus answers this question: Which is the greatest commandment? Jewish rabbis…
His opponents set a trap for Jesus in today’s Gospel. Rome had imposed a head tax on its Jewish subjects. Pharisees were OK with paying it, Herodians supported it, and nationalists opposed it, sometimes by fomenting rebellions. Who would Jesus side with? Would his answer brand him as an insurrectionist?…
What is your favorite food? If you were going to an expensive restaurant — with unlimited money — what would you choose to eat? Our first reading from Isaiah presents the image of God setting out a feast for us, of juicy, rich food and pure, choice wines. Our Gospel…
Today’s Gospel (Matt 21:33-43) is a polemic passage — a text supporting one viewpoint over another. We hear a parable about a vineyard, whose tenant farmers try to take it over by killing the king owner’s son. This parable follows two other passages in Matthew 21: the cleansing of the…
Taking a Sunday afternoon walk around the Farmhouse property is one of my favorite things to do. I’m never quite sure which flora and fauna I’ll run into. Usually I do notice how many weeds have invaded the flowerbeds when I wasn’t looking. This past Sunday I found myself a…
Do nothing out of selfishness or out of vainglory; rather, humbly regard others as more important than yourselves, each looking out not for his own interests but also for those of others (Philippians 2:3). How radical these words from our second reading are. Self-interest is the prime motivator in politics…
I still remember my outraged seventh grade self. We went to Mass as a family, and I had matured enough to really absorb the Gospel, this one, about the workers who all get paid the same no matter how long they worked. “How can this be?” I proclaimed to my…
“Wrath and anger are hateful things, yet the sinner hugs them tight,” proclaims Sirach, our first reading. Many of us have seen this up close and personal, in our own families, in friends and neighbors, in work groups. In pastoral work I have seen people hold on to wrath and…
