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A Canaanite woman is the main character in today’s Gospel from Matthew; Mark also has the story, but calls her a Phoenician. The Canaanites were historical enemies of the Hews, people who worshiped a popular false god named Baal. So this woman faced a hostile audience when she begs the…
In today’s Gospel story, the disciples are in a boat, fishing at night, and being tossed about in a storm. We all have times in our lives when we are tossed about by waves, and when it is natural to wonder whether God is paying any attention, or why God…
In the midst of a pandemic, our Sunday Scriptures console and reassure. Thus says the Lord:…come, receive grain and eat; come without paying and without cost, drink wine and milk! (1st reading). What will separate us from the love of Christ? … peril, or the sword? No, in all these…
In the time of Jesus, there were no banks, and large wars and smaller regional ones were common. So people hid their treasures, and even today in the Middle East, ancient hordes are sometimes discovered. Today’s Gospel from Matthew begins with a parable about a man who discovers a treasure…
I do a lot of weeding! Where do they come from! I feel empathy for the man in today’s Gospel who says about his weed-choked wheat field, “an enemy has done this!” The growth images of last Sunday are present again this Sunday in three parables Jesus tells. The wheat…
Many of us, myself included, have learned to avoid certain conversations with people who are “in a different camp” than we are! Last Sunday we saw how Jesus’ teaching was rejected by “the wise and learned.” In today’s Gospel, the disciples ask Jesus why he teaches using parables. Parables are…
Most of us have heard the lyrics to the song “Simple Gifts”: ’Tis the gift to be simple, ’tis the gift to be free, ’tis the gift to come down where we ought to be. And when we find ourselves in the place just right, it will be in the…
Matthew’s words, “whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me” are actually softer than the same passage in Luke: “…if anyone comes to me without hating his father and mother, wife and children… .” It helps to remember who Matthew is writing for. After the…
After Pentecost we return to the counted Sundays called Ordinary time, and since this is year A of our lectionary, we will be hearing most often on Sundays from the Gospel of Matthew. Often in the Gospels Jesus said to his disciples, “fear not.” Matthew makes it specific: “fear no…
I hope we never have another feast of “Corpus Christi” like this one! This year many of us will continue to watch TV Masses and continue to fast from physical communion. The gift of our long fasting from Eucharist is that we have become truly hungry for it, deeply appreciative…
