Journey to Wholeness
… Read the restAnd James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came up to him and said to him, “Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask of you.” And
For who is greater: the one seated at table or the one who serves? Is it not the one seated at table?
… Read the restOn a sabbath Jesus went to dine at the home of one of the leading Pharisees, and the people there were observing him carefully.
20th Week in Ordinary Time, Wednesday (Year II)
“Thus, the last will be first, and the first will be last.”
Matthew 20:16
What is the foundation of the concepts “first” and “last”?
“First” is derived from one. One is derived from two.… Read the rest
Feast of St. James
Matthew 20:20-28
What does the kingdom of heaven look like? Jesus never described it in precise scientific or geographical terms suited to the spatiotemporal domain, but always with suggestive images. Like the attempts of the Sphere to describe the third dimension to a two-dimensional Square in Edwin Abbott’s novel, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, unimaginable depths are lost in translation when communicating divine realities in 4-D linguistics.… Read the rest