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    Keys for a Fisherman
    Jesus asks the most important question in the Gospel about as far from Jerusalem as he ever walks, in front of a rock face covered with other people's gods. And the man who answers correctly is given,...
    Bible Spirituality
    Aug 22, 2026
    The Queen Who Called Herself a Servant
    Eight days after the Assumption, the Church gives Mary the title of queen. It is a risky word to use on the very day the Gospel dismantles every human appetite for rank. Unless, of course, her queensh...
    Bible Spirituality
    Aug 22, 2026
    What Everything Hangs On
    There are six hundred and thirteen commandments in the law of Moses, and the lawyer who steps forward today knows every one of them. His question is built as a trap. Jesus turns it into the shortest s...
    Bible Spirituality
    Aug 20, 2026
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
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