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The Measure Pressed Down, Shaken Together, and Poured Into the Fold of Your Cloak

In an old market, a buyer would hold out the fold of his cloak and the seller would pour the grain into it, press it down with his fist, shake the basket so the kernels settled into the gaps, and then...

Bible Spirituality

Sep 9, 2026 Word of God

Blessed Are You, Now: Luke's Beatitudes Spoken to the Faces Standing in Front of Him

Some words are spoken about people, and some are spoken to them. Today Jesus does the second thing: he raises his eyes, finds the faces of his own disciples, and speaks in the second person, singular ...

Bible Spirituality

Sep 9, 2026 Word of God

Construction Begins on the New SMB Formation House in Harare

After a multi-stage preparatory phase, construction work on the new SMB formation house in Harare began in early June 2026. The project on the Marlborough Drive site is due to be completed by the end ...

Africa Harare Missionary formation News Zimbabwe

Sep 8, 2026 The SMB Blog

Novitiate Begins in Driefontein, and a New Community Experience

On 5 July 2026, five novices began their novitiate in Driefontein. At the same time, and in the same place, a new year of Community Experience is beginning. Eight candidates have been admitted. Five n...

Africa Driefontein Missionary formation News Zimbabwe

Sep 8, 2026 The SMB Blog

Journey to Taiwan: Setting Out Towards the Jubilee Year

From 22 June to 5 July 2026, Ludovic Nobel, Superior General of the SMB, travelled to Taiwan. The visit was given over entirely to gratitude for a rich missionary heritage and to setting the course fo...

Asia News SMB Superior General Taitung Taiwan

Sep 8, 2026 The SMB Blog

The Birthday the Gospel Never Mentions, and the Village Too Small to Be Counted

A birthday is always celebrated backwards. We only discover which days deserved to be marked once we see what grew out of them, and by then the day itself has long since passed unnoticed. Today the Ch...

Bible Spirituality

Sep 7, 2026 Word of God

A Withered Hand in the Middle of the Room, and the Question Nobody Wanted to Answer

Paul writes to Corinth about bread. A very little old yeast, he says, sours the whole batch, and the community that shrugs at it will taste the difference in everything it bakes. Then he lifts the ima...

Bible Spirituality

Sep 6, 2026 Word of God

The Shortest Walk in the Gospel

There is a distance in today's Gospel that is easy to miss because it is so short: the few steps between your door and the door of the person you have something against. Jesus begins there, and he wou...

Bible Spirituality

Sep 5, 2026 Word of God

The Grain They Rubbed in Their Hands

It is a small scene, easy to walk past. Men crossing a field, pulling off heads of grain as they go, rubbing away the husks between their palms, eating what is left in the hollow of the hand. Five ver...

Bible Spirituality

Sep 4, 2026 Word of God

The Taste We Are Used To

There is a moment at some tables when a new bottle is opened with a certain pride, and everyone tastes it politely and then reaches back for the one they already know. Nobody is being disloyal; the mo...

Bible Spirituality

Sep 3, 2026 Word of God

Nothing All Night, and Then His Word

There is a particular tiredness that belongs to the end of a night shift. The work is finished, nothing came of it, and all that remains is to clean the tools and go home. That is the hour at which to...

Bible Spirituality

Sep 2, 2026 Word of God

The Town That Wanted to Keep Him

A single day in Capernaum holds a fever cooled at noon, a doorway crowded until after dark, and a village that has finally found what it had been waiting for. It is the kind of day any of us would wan...

Bible Spirituality

Sep 1, 2026 Word of God

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