In today’s Gospel Jesus invites his first disciples and invites all of us to “Come and See.” Philip finds Nathanael and tells him we found the one foretold in the Scripture (“the Law, and also the prophets”). It is: “Jesus son of Joseph, from Nazareth.” Nathanael is...
Today’s first reading is the prophet Ezekiel’s great vision of dry bones. As we hear at the beginning of today’s reading “and of the LORD came upon me and led me out in the Spirit of the LORD and set me in the center of the plain, which was now filled with bones.”...
Jesus is teaching in the temple when the religious leaders, the pharisees and chief priests, ask him with what authority he bases his teachings. He does not answer their questions directly. Rather he responds with some parables or teachings regarding the reign of God....
How many times have you heard today’s Gospel of the landowner who went out to hire laborers for his vineyard? Most often we hear it as a contrast between God’s generosity and our sense of fairness. Sometimes it’s the ‘it’s never too late’...
I have often wondered why the disciples were so startled by Jesus’ statement that being rich and being Christian are generally incompatible. None of them were rich. Why were they so disturbed by this statement? Why was Jesus’ encounter with the good, young, rich man...
