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When I lived in Israel for three months, I came to appreciate the Adhan, the Muslim call to prayer. I lived in Bethany, up the hill from the Mount of Olives, and Bethany is a Palestinian village where there are many mosques that broadcast the chanted Arabic call to prayer…
So why didn’t Bartimaeus go home? This blind beggar sitting by the Jericho road apparently was a common sight, because the crowd knew his name, this “son of Timaeus.” Bartimaeus was bold enough to ignore the bullying of the crowd that tried to silence him as Jesus is passed by.…
Sunday’s Gospel is so very human. Two apostles, James and John, are trying to get to the head of the pack and sit at the right and left side of Jesus in the kingdom of heaven. When the other disciples hear about this, they get mad! Why them and not…
Once a wealthy man was regaling me with how many hours he spends opening the multitudes of appeals he gets in the mail — and the ways he decides among them. He gives several thousand dollars a week to various appeals. Then he added, with great seriousness, that a concern…
“The Pharisees approached Jesus and asked, ‘Is it lawful for a husband to divorce his wife?’” They wanted to see if Jesus would support the permission for divorce that Deut 24:1-4 gave them, or would he find a way around it? Indeed, Jesus gave an unequivocal “no” to divorce, citing…
Oh dear! The language at the end of our Gospel today is so shockingly severe that we might well cringe. It’s the passage where we are advised to cut off our hands or our feet, or pluck out our eye, if they cause us to sin. Notice that these admonitions…
Where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every foul practice …. Where do the wars and where do the conflicts among you come from? Is it not from your passions that make war within your members? We do not know for sure who James was, author of…
In last week’s Gospel we met a Jesus who was very human. He healed people by touching them with his hands and by talking with them. Today in our Gospel we get the ultimate revelation of his humanity. Like all of us Jesus will die, and like some of us…
Ugh! That might be our feeling on hearing in the Gospel how Jesus heals the deaf and dumb man by putting his fingers in the man’s ears and spitting and touching his tongue. This is Mark’s Gospel, the earliest Gospel, written just 30 or so years after Jesus’ death. So…
What makes a person good? The legal system judges people good or evil by whether they keep laws. But it is easy to see the limits of that approach. A stingy person may well be keeping all financial laws. An honest person may never tell a lie but also never…
