My old Bible teacher called it a “Johannine thunderbolt in a Matthean sky.” In Matthew 11 we read: “No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son.” This is the kind of language we usually find in the fourth gospel and here it is in the first.… Read More »
JULY172018
Jesus was “meek and humble of heart.” He was full of love and compassion. With all of that he was not reluctant to pronounce a “woe” on those who needed to hear it. He warned his contemporaries when he thought they merited warning. All of which serves as a reminder that sometime the loving thing… Read More »
JULY162018
This summer the readings are taken from the prophets. This week we turn to Isaiah. He was so important in helping the early Christians appreciate who Jesus was that he became The Prophet, capital letters. His ministry was in the southern kingdom of Judah but his message was consonant with the northern prophets Amos and… Read More »
JULY152018
For those of us who were alive when dinosaurs roamed the earth one of the iconic images of the American experience is of the gunfighter riding off all alone into the sunset with amber waves of grain spread before him and purple mountains majesty in the distance and young Brandon deWilde calling out, “Shane, come… Read More »
JULY142018
The call of Isaiah to become a prophet serves as a model for each one of us in our vocation to be apostles, those who bring the good news of Jesus into our world. The call is situated in a particular time and circumstance: “in the year king Uzziah died.” And the call happens during… Read More »
JULY132018
Pope Francis challenges us to be missionary disciples. In the Archdiocese we are asked to become evangelizers. Father Judge, the founder of my congregation, the Missionary Servants of the Most Holy Trinity, said that “every Catholic is called to be an apostle.” Different words are being used but the same idea lies behind them —… Read More »
JULY122018
Hosea used his personal experience to understand the ways of God in the world. His disastrous marriage to an unfaithful wife modeled for him God’s dealings with Israel. God chided them for their infidelity and demanded that they change their ways. Later in the book he used another experience, that of fatherhood, to help understand… Read More »
July 15 2018 Bulletin
July 15 2018 wk 34 Bulletin
JULY112018
When Jesus gave his apostles their marching orders he told them, “Do not go into pagan territory… Go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” He was very clear that his mission was to his own people. However, a few chapters later in St. Matthew’s Gospel Jesus was on vacation in Lebanon… Read More »
JULY102018
St. Mark reported that “At sight of the crowds, [Jesus’] heart was moved with pity for them because they were troubled and abandoned.” Today we almost experience a pity overload. Our hearts go out to the young boys trapped in a cave. The latest victims of a school shooting evoke pity. Just walking down the… Read More »
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