Ascension Day Gives Us a Worldwide Mission
Even so, think about what this plan must have sounded like to the Eleven gathered there. They were a motley crew of mostly uneducated and nondescript men—fishermen, a tax collector, a political zealot, etc. It is doubtful any of them had ever left the boundaries of their own nation. Were these men ready to change the world? Surely this […]
This Sunday’s Gospel tells an engaging, sometimes humorous, story of a blind man who can see and men with vision who are blind. Gospel (Read Jn 9:1-41) In the Gospel we are immediately introduced to a contrast that appears in all four lectionary readings: sight and blindness, darkness and light. There are layers of meaning for us […]
When Joseph and Mary took the infant Jesus to the Temple to fulfill Jewish law, they also fulfilled a treasured a Messianic prophecy. How? Gospel (Read Lk 2:22-40) About a month after Jesus was born, His parents took Him to the Temple in Jerusalem to fulfill the law of Moses concerning firstborns (see Ex 13:1-3). What was […]
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