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Nothing New Under the Sun, and a Tetrarch Who Only Wanted to Get a Look at Jesus

There is a kind of interest that never becomes a visit. We follow news of a person for years, we know the name and most of the story, and we never once cross the street to meet them. Today's Gospel is...

Bible Spirituality

Sep 23, 2026 Word of God

Nothing for the Journey: The Five Things the Twelve Were Told to Leave at Home

Anyone who has packed for a long trip knows the small arithmetic of fear that goes on at the bottom of a bag. Every extra item is a tiny insurance policy against something going wrong. Today Jesus sen...

Bible Spirituality

Sep 22, 2026 Word of God

Standing Outside, Wanting to See Him: The Door Jesus Opens Just as He Seems to Close One

There is a particular helplessness in being just outside a room where someone you love is speaking. You can hear the voice. You can see the backs of the people between you. And there is no way through...

Bible Spirituality

Sep 21, 2026 Word of God

A Name Where There Were Only Numbers: Jesus Stops at the Tax Collector's Table

Somewhere on the road out of Capharnaum there stood a small table with a ledger on it, and behind the table a man whose working life consisted of turning people into figures. Jesus walks along that ro...

Bible Spirituality

Sep 20, 2026 Word of God

My Thoughts Are Not Your Thoughts: The Owner Who Came Back at the Wrong Hour

Most parables are stories about people. This one is also a timetable. Jesus names the hours one by one, and if we follow the clock instead of the contract, the whole scene changes shape. "The kingdom ...

Bible Spirituality

Sep 19, 2026 Word of God

The Seed Goes Into the Dark: What Is Sown in Us Today, and What Will One Day Be Sown of Us

Anyone who has ever planted something knows the strange moment when the seed disappears. You close the soil over it and there is nothing left to look at, only a patch of ground that looks exactly like...

Bible Spirituality

Sep 18, 2026 Word of God

Three Names, a Purse, and the Long Dusty Road on Which the Kingdom Was Carried

Some of the most important sentences in the Gospels are the ones that sound like stage directions. Today Luke pauses between two scenes, tells us who was actually walking the roads with Jesus, and sli...

Bible Spirituality

Sep 17, 2026 Word of God

The Woman Who Came in Without Being Invited, and the Host Who Never Left His Chair

There are rooms where everyone knows exactly where they belong, and where the seating tells you everything before a word is spoken. Today's Gospel takes us into one of those rooms, and then lets someb...

Bible Spirituality

Sep 16, 2026 Word of God

The Children Who Would Not Dance, and the Wisdom That Is Justified by Her Children

Every village square has the same scene. One group of children starts a game, and another group sits on the edge and will not join. Nobody is shouting, nobody is being cruel; they simply refuse to pla...

Bible Spirituality

Sep 15, 2026 Word of God

She Did Not Faint, She Stood: Our Lady of Sorrows and the Home That Began at the Cross

Yesterday the Church lifted the cross high and sang to it as to a throne. Today she comes down to its foot, where the view is quite different, and finds a small group of people standing in the dust wi...

Bible Spirituality

Sep 14, 2026 Word of God

Bronze in the Desert: Why God Healed His People by Making Them Look at Their Own Wound

In an emergency camp the most important object is often the one placed highest: a flag, a lamp, a sign on a pole, something that can be seen from ground level by people too weak to stand up and walk t...

Bible Spirituality

Sep 13, 2026 Word of God

Ten Thousand Talents, and the Man Who Thought He Had Only Been Given More Time

Anyone who has ever owed money knows the strange arithmetic of debt: the total keeps running in the back of the mind, even during sleep, even at meals. Today's Gospel begins with a man doing sums out ...

Bible Spirituality

Sep 13, 2026 Word of God

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