The Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2020 – Cycle A 1 Kings 3:5, 7-12; Psalm 119; Romans 8:28-30; Matthew 13:44-52 An understanding, listening heart is quite different from a listening, understanding ear, is it not? Though my question straddles metaphor … Continue reading →

The Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2020 – Cycle A Wisdom 12:13, 16-19; Psalm 86; Romans 8:26-27; Matthew 13:24-43 What has it been like for you to pray during the last four months? Obviously the public and communal worship of … Continue reading →

The Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2020 – Cycle A Isaiah 55:10-11; Psalm 65; Romans 8:18-23; Matthew 13:1-23 During the last few months have you come to feel scattered? Unmoored? Not depressed, just drifting? I do. Obviously we have not … Continue reading →

The Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2020 – Cycle A Zechariah 9:9-10; Psalm 145; Romans 8:9. 11-13; Matthew 11:25-30 Jesus has described and sent his disciples into a precarious world. We are living no less an unstable world, are we … Continue reading →