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]
And another person said, “I will follow you, Lord, but first let me say farewell to my family at home.” Jesus answered him, “No one who sets a hand to the plow and looks to what was left behind is fit for the Kingdom of God.” Luke 9: 61-2 Having made, at the age of…[read more]
When the days for Jesus to be taken up were fulfilled, he resolutely determined to journey to Jerusalem. Luke 9: 51 Job opened his mouth and cursed his day. Job spoke out and said: “Perish the day on which I was born, the night when they said, ‘The child is a boy!” Why did I…[read more]
Naked I came forth from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I go back again. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord. Job 1: 21 The Book of Job is a problem for us, as evil is a problem for us. We speak of the “problem…[read more]
God has made everything beautiful in its time. God has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. Ecclesiastes 3:11 In the classic American play Our Town by Thornton Wilder, Emily, the young woman who has died in childbirth, returns unseen to witness…[read more]
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