Woe to you! You build tombs for the prophets. But your own ancestors killed them! Therefore you are witnesses to and collude with the deeds of your ancestors. They killed them, you build their tombs. Luke 11: 47-8 As we measure it, it has been a long time since Jesus charged the lawyers and the…[read more]
You cannot belong to Christ Jesus unless you crucify all self-indulgent passions and desires. Since the Spirit is our life, let us be directed by the Spirit. Galatians 5: 23-3 “Woe also to you lawyers! You pile loads on people that are hard to carry, and yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of…[read more]
The Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish. But your insides are full of greed and wickedness! Fools! Didn’t the one who made the outside also make the inside? So instead, give that which is inside as alms. And look! Everything is clean for you! Luke 11:…[read more]
The Ninevites will rise at the judgment with this generation and will condemn it. They repented at the preaching of Jonah. Look, something greater than Jonah is here! Luke 11: 32 In the verses immediately preceding the selection for today’s gospel, Luke recounts the words of a woman who shouts to Jesus from the crowd:…[read more]
The person who is not with me is against me. The one who does not join me scatters. Whenever an unclean spirit departs from a person it passes through waterless areas looking for a resting place but finds none. So it says, “I will go back to the house I left.” When it arrives, it…[read more]
“And I tell you, ask and you will receive; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives; and the one who seeks, finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.” Luke 11: 9-10 In teaching about prayer, Jesus tells a…[read more]
Jesus was praying in a certain place, and when he had finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray just as John taught his disciples.” Luke 11: 1 What was it like for the disciples to witness Jesus at prayer? In today’s gospel we hear that whatever it was they…[read more]
“Martha, Martha, you are anxious and worried about many things. There is need of only one thing. Mary has chosen the better part and it will not be taken from her.” Luke 10: 42-3 Today is the Feast of St Francis of Assisi. In both reality and legend Francis is a figure of the one…[read more]
“Which of these three, in your opinion, was neighbor to the robbers’ victim?” He answered, “The one who treated him with mercy.” Jesus said to him, “Go and do likewise.” Luke 10: 36-7 One of the most discouraging aspects of political campaigns for an involved citizen is the meaninglessness of most promises that are made…[read more]
“Amen, amen I say to you, you will see heaven open and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.” John 1: 51 Today is the feast of the archangels Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael. They are among the prime scriptural intermediaries between God and the human race. They are emblems of…[read more]
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