Journey to Wholeness
21st Week in Ordinary Time, Tuesday (Year II)
Matthew 23:23-26
Jesus said: โWoe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You pay tithes of mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier things of the law: judgment and mercy and fidelity.… Read the rest
20th Week in Ordinary Time, Wednesday (Year II)
โThus, the last will be first, and the first will be last.โ
Matthew 20:16
What is the foundation of the concepts โfirstโ and โlastโ?
โFirstโ 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 Abbottโs novel, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, unimaginable depths are lost in translation when communicating divine realities in 4-D linguistics.… Read the rest
Friday of the Fourth Week of Easter
John 14:1-6
Facing his impending death, Jesus comforted his disciples, saying, โDo not let your hearts be troubled. You have faith in God; have faith also in me.โ… Read the rest