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The Robe You Did Not Sew

A wedding is the least threatening thing God could have compared his kingdom to, and it is still turned down. In today's parable, the refusals are not dramatic; they are errands. And the only guest pu...

Bible Spirituality

Aug 19, 2026 Word of God

Because I Am Good

There is a kind of accounting that looks like fairness and is only arithmetic. Today the Lord takes the ledger out of our hands, and the first reading tells us why: before he is an employer, he is a s...

Bible Spirituality

Aug 18, 2026 Word of God

Who Then Can Be Saved?

We like to hear the camel's saying as a warning aimed at other people, the ones with real money. Today's first reading closes that exit. The prince of Tyre was not condemned for owning gold; he was co...

Bible Spirituality

Aug 17, 2026 Word of God

What Do I Still Lack?

We remember this story for its sad ending, and so we miss the extraordinary thing in the middle of it. A man who has everything admits, out loud and to a stranger's face, that something is missing. To...

Bible Spirituality

Aug 16, 2026 Word of God

She Was Not an Exception

We tend to read the Canaanite woman as a beautiful irregularity, a case where the rule was bent for once. Today's first two readings will not let us. They put her exactly where she belongs: not outsid...

Bible Spirituality

Aug 16, 2026 Word of God

A Man Took a Husband's Place

The first reading tells the story of a newborn thrown out into a field, and of someone who walked past, saw her lying in her blood, and said one word: Live. The Gospel is a legal question about when a...

Bible Spirituality

Aug 13, 2026 Word of God

Two Rivals in One Mine

Ezekiel is told to stop preaching and start packing. The people are not listening to words, so God gives them a mime instead. And in the Gospel, Peter tries to fix a generous-sounding limit on forgive...

Bible Spirituality

Aug 12, 2026 Word of God

The Mark on Those Who Grieve

Ezekiel watches a city being marked. One man moves through it with an inkhorn and puts a sign on the foreheads of certain people, and the criterion is not what we expect. In the Gospel, Jesus lays out...

Bible Spirituality

Aug 11, 2026 Word of God

Eat the Scroll, Then Go and Speak

God gives Ezekiel a message, and then does something strange with it: he tells him to eat it. Before there is anything to say, there is something to swallow. The Gospel says the same thing from the ot...

Bible Spirituality

Aug 11, 2026 Word of God

The Seed Is Given Before the Harvest Is Asked

Today the Church keeps the feast of a deacon who was roasted alive for refusing to hand over the treasures of the Church. The readings do not dwell on his courage. They ask a quieter question: where d...

Bible Spirituality

Aug 10, 2026 Word of God

Come Out of the Cave, Get Out of the Boat

Three men today are in trouble, and not one of them is told to stay where he is. The word that comes to each of them is a word that sends them out. Immediately after he had fed the crowd in the desert...

Bible Spirituality

Aug 9, 2026 Word of God

A Seed, and a Long Wait

Two men in today's readings ask the same thing in different words: why is nothing happening? Neither of them is given an explanation. Both are given something to hold on to. "At that time a man came u...

Bible Spirituality

Aug 7, 2026 Word of God

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