One of the greatest things we can give another person is our word. In fact, there are those who believe that our word is the only thing we have to give. But it’s easy to give our word. It doesn’t cost anything there and then. The cost comes later, if…
Today’s Gospel is a parable of the Kingdom and, once again, it helps confirm that the Kingdom of heaven is truly something else. The concept of the Kingdom of heaven is the second most frequently mentioned idea in the New Testament. It occurs one hundred forty-eight times. Only the word…
Jesus asks us to forgive ‘seventy times seven’. Which means forgiveness must be unlimited. There is no point in being glib about forgiveness, or pretending that it is easy. It is never easy. Without the grace of God it is sometimes impossible. When we get hurt, we naturally grow resentful…
The Gospel raises a very practical issue: how to act when someone close to you is treating you badly. Obviously these kind of problems occurred even in the first Christian community. Today’s Gospel gives us a way of tackling a problem like this. First of all, however, let us take…
In the first reading today Jeremiah the prophet tells how his mission has brought him scorn and mockery. In the second reading, Paul tells us not to be conformed to the world around us, but to be transformed by the renewal of our minds, so that we can discern the…
