Journey to Wholeness
… Read the restI have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already blazing! There is a baptism with which I must be baptized, and how great is my anguish until it is accomplished!
… Read the restBe sure of this: if the master of the house had known the hour when the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into.
… Read the restI tell you, everyone who acknowledges me before others the Son of Man will acknowledge before the angels of God.
… Read the rest“I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already blazing! There is a baptism with which I must be baptized, and how great is my anguish until it is accomplished! Do
… Read the rest“Gird your loins and light your lamps and be like servants who await their master’s return from a wedding, ready to open immediately when he comes and knocks.
29th Week in Ordinary Time, Friday (Year II)
Luke 12:54-59
As a weather vane points in the direction of the wind, Jesus points in the direction of the Holy Spirit (pneuma). … Read the rest
29th Week in Ordinary Time, Wednesday
Luke 12:39-48
In the marbled and malleable world of metaphor and analogy, God changes guises faster than James Bond.… Read the rest
Ephesians 2:1-10; Luke 12:13-21
Someone in the crowd said to Jesus, “Teacher, tell my brother to share the inheritance with me.” He replied to him, “Friend, who appointed me as your judge and arbitrator?”
Jesus refused to get roped into a property dispute between brothers.… Read the rest
28th Week in Ordinary Time, Saturday (Year II)
Luke 12:8-12
… Read the restJesus said to his disciples: “I tell you, everyone who acknowledges me before others the Son of Man will acknowledge before the angels of God. But whoever denies me before others will be denied before the angels of God.”
28th Week in Ordinary Time, Friday (Year II)
Luke 12:1-7
Meanwhile, so many people were crowding together that they were trampling one another underfoot.
Sounds like rush hour in a New York City subway. In another manuscript of Luke, the crowds were “choking each other.”… Read the rest