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For several of the last years, I met homeless people, at shelters, or as patients at the county hospital. It surprised me how they almost never made excuses for themselves. They admitted freely to addictions, to lives marked by irresponsibility and even crime — that is, they were admitted sinners.…
“But when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?” Our Gospel ends with this question. It is not easy being a disciple of Christ, and in Luke’s Christian community, some people had given up their faith because the second coming of Christ in glory had not…
Outsiders, “others,” are prominent in Sunday Scriptures this week. In the Hebrew Scripture reading, we hear the ending of the Naaman story. He was a Syrian who comes to the Hebrew prophet Elijah for healing. The Gospel follows with the account of the curing of 10 lepers — themselves ostracized…
It seems to me that our culture is obsessed with praise. Of course there is all the hero worship of our adult media and sports stars. But even very young children seem to have praise heaped upon them — elaborate birthday parties they won’t even remember, pictures of their precocious…
The Hebrew Scripture reading this Sunday is part of the prophet Amos’ diatribe against rich people, who feast while the poor starve. It is paired with Jesus’ parable about the rich man and the poor beggar Lazarus. Jesus, however, was not against rich people. He had wealthy friends and supporters…
“And the master commended that dishonest steward for acting prudently. For the children of this world are more prudent in dealing with their own generation than are the children of light.” This Sunday’s Gospel is a jumble of practical wisdom including this lesson about the servant who, when fired, managed…
Today’s Gospel contains three stories Jesus told: the man with one lost sheep; the woman with one lost coin; and the father with one lost son, whom we usually call the prodigal son. The shepherd risks his whole flock to look for his one sheep; the woman foolishly throws a…
Slavery was part of the Greco-Roman world, and in Sunday’s second reading from the shortest Epistle, Philemon, we meet a slave named Onesimus. Apparently this slave had left his master because of some conflict, and he had come to Paul. Paul was in prison at the time, held for trial…
“…People there were observing him carefully,” Luke tells us, when Jesus went to dine at the home of a leading Pharisee. But Jesus also was observing the people carefully! And what he observed is something we are very familiar with — high-status people and lesser-status folks. “All men are created…
Sometimes people say they think there is no hell, or if there is, no one is in it because the merciful God would never send anyone there. In Sunday’s Gospel someone asks Jesus if only a few are saved. Jesus answer, in the prophetic tradition, sounds severe. Strive to enter…
