27th Sunday of Ordinary Time: Can We Ever Have a Mustard Seed of Faith?
27th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year C Luke 17:5-10 Can We Ever Have a Mustard Seed of Faith? Just prior to this reading, Jesus has told the disciples they should forgive seven times. (Seven was a perfect number, so he…
26th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year C: The Cost of Pride
26th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year C Luke 17:19-31 The Cost of Pride Love of money is what gets us in trouble, not money itself. We use that justification frequently. It’s true. What gets us in trouble is pride, not…
25th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year C
25th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year C Luke 16:1-13 A Very Challenging Gospel This was one of those gospels I read a dozen times trying to glean my own meaning or at least find a nugget somewhere. About the only…
24th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year C
24th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year C Luke 15:1-32 Getting Lost to be Found The trio of “lost parables” kicks off with the line, “The tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to listen to him, but the Pharisees…
23rd Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year C
23rd Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year C Luke 14:25-33 Is Jesus Really Asking Us to Hate Our Parents? There’s definite tension in Christianity. On the one hand, Jesus meets everyone where they are. He advocates against judgement. He never demands…
22nd Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year C
22nd Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year C Luke 14:1:7-14 Tension in the Gospels: Staying Humble and Rocking On It’s a bad feeling to think you’ve got this—whatever this is— and then to discover that, in fact, you don’t. As bad…