“I am Joseph, your brother.” These words from Genesis were the title of a biography of Cardinal Bernardin. They were also the first words spoken by Pope John XXIII when he met with the Chief Rabbi in Rome. What these three scenes have in common is the transcending of pain and suffering. Joseph does not… Read More »
July 16 2017 Bulletin
July 16 2017 wk 34 Bulletin web
JULY122017
The New Testament insists that Jesus is “like us in all things but sin.” Well, since learning is a very human activity and it is certainly not a sin, we can be sure that Jesus learned. The Gospels suggest that one thing he learned was the scope of his mission. When he commissions the twelve… Read More »
JULY112017
The scene of Jacob wrestling with “some man” — who he comes to recognize as an angel of God — is one of those puzzling stories in the Bible, but one that we can relate to. Haven’t we all felt like we have been wrestling with God at certain points in our life? Some difficulty… Read More »
JULY102017
“How awesome is this place! This is nothing else but an abode of God, and that is the gateway to heaven!” Have you ever been to a place that caused you to react as Jacob did — with a sense of awe at the presence of the sacred? I know people who feel the sacred… Read More »
JULY92017
My old seminary professor used to call the passage Matthew 11:25-30 “a Johannine lightning bolt in a Matthean sky.” He meant the the words of Jesus quoted by St. Matthew would seem to fit better in John’s Gospel than in the first. Jesus in St. Matthew usually talks about things like the lilies of the… Read More »
JULY82017
Jacob is one of the great heroes of the Bible. He became Israel, the father of the nation. He was, however, greatly flawed. He is sometimes called a trickster but let’s not kid ourselves. Jacob was a liar and a cheat. In the USA we try to wrap the father of our nation, George Washington,… Read More »
JULY72017
Periodically there are news items about this or that bishop refusing to give communion to a particular politician. The stated reason for such a refusal is that his political decisions are in opposition to the Church’s teachings and thus he does not deserve Holy Communion. In contrast, Pope Francis has been stressing that receiving Holy… Read More »
JULY72017
The story of the binding of Isaac (as it is known in Jewish traditions) has been the source of continual reflection among Jews, Christians and Muslims. Is this simply a demonstration of the rejection of human sacrifice on the part of God? Or, as some Christians have allegorized, does it serve as a foreshadowing of… Read More »
July 9 2017 Bulletin
July 9 2017 wk 33 Bulletin web
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