Year B The French Bread of the Pharisees 13 Feb 202416 Feb 2024 I lived in Paris in my late teens. One of the people I lived with was German. He surprised me one day by saying that he didn’t like French bread.…
Ordinary Time 4th Sunday-A Word that is New 26 Jan 202410 Feb 2024 Moses shown the Promised Land, Benjamin West Deut 18:15-20, Mark 1:21-28 Reading Mark’s gospel in some ways is the difference between someone describing what it is like to be in…
Ordinary Time… 15th Sunday – The Need for Roots 15 Jul 20235 Aug 2023 Matthew 13:1-23 With this Sunday we start to hear the parables of Jesus in Matthew’s gospel. The first parable Jesus gives is the Sower. Why this parable? Because it is…
Ordinary Time… 3rd Sunday – Opening the Sealed Book 23 Jan 202222 Feb 2022 Illuminated Manuscript, The Siegburg Lectionary 1 Cor 12:12-30, Luke 4:14-21 And the vision of all this has become to you like the words of a book that is sealed. When…
Ordinary Time… 14th Sunday – The Prophet’s Stand 3 Jul 20213 Sep 2021 Ezek 2:2-5, Mark 6:1-6 We hear today, the calling of Ezekiel, as a prophet. He is already warned that his mission is going to be anything but easy. And Jesus,…
Ordinary Time… 3rd Sunday – Call Me Jonah (How to defy God) 23 Jan 202123 Feb 2021 Jonah and the Whale (1621) by Pieter Lastman Jonah 3:1-10 We hear this Sunday from the hilarious (yet profound!) book of the prophet Jonah. This is the only Sunday of the three-year…