Over the past two weeks we have been making our way through chapter 25 of Matthew’s Gospel – and now we come to maybe the most directly challenging of Jesus’ parables. Jesus is on the verge of his Passion and he offers in this chapter three parables about testing, about care and dear, and judgement. […]
Tomorrow we celebrate the feast of Christ the King. Our second reading at that Mass reminds us of the Kingship that is not of this world only, but finds its fulness in Christ’s Resurrection where death is overcome and, as St Paul puts it in 1 Corinthians, Christ “delivers the kingdom to God the Father […]
The Psalmist gives voice to his gratitude for the security that he finds in the Lord: even – in a verse omitted in this Sunday’s selection – should he walk in the valley of the shadow of death he would fear no evil. What confidence do you find in the Lord? And how do you […]
