The Gospel readings this month spend a great deal of time talking about how we spend our money. In today’s passage, Jesus tells his listeners, “Provide money bags for yourselves that do not wear out.” And certainly in our culture, worth is inevitably determined in economic terms. We can get a pretty good idea about [...]
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Where Your Treasure Is….
Posted in Faith, Homilies, Lectionary, New Testament, Ordinary Time, Spirituality on August 11, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Minding God’s Business
Posted in Homilies, Lectionary, Liturgy, Ordinary Time, discipleship on July 10, 2007 | 7 Comments »
The way the Sunday readings strike me often depends on what else I’m thinking about, and this week is no different. After spending some time Saturday reading around the blogosphere on the Motu Proprio, Paul’s letter to the Galatians made me think not of the circumcision controversy of his day, but of the liturgical issues [...]
“Every day above ground is a good one.”
Posted in Gospels, Lectionary, Ordinary Time, Sirach on May 28, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Six Feet Under, a quirky series on HBO, centers on a dysfunctional family running a funeral home. The tagline for the first season was “Every day above ground is a good one.” Sirach, the author of the first reading in today’s lectionary selection, would agree with that. He tells his listeners, “You who are alive [...]
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