Tuesday, November 19, 2024 Rv 3:1-6, 14-22; Lk 19:1-10 Today’s Gospel highlights the effect of sin and the fruit of conversion. The life of Zacchaeus, the chief tax collector, becomes both the example of the corrupting power of sin and the liberating power of conversion. Zacchaeus was wealthy and had everything that would make him […]
Monday, November 18, 2024 Rv 1:1-4; 2:1-5; Lk 18:35-43 Today’s Gospel enlightens us with the prudence of the blind man who makes the winning claim. Christian moral theology understands prudence as the ‘right reason.’ The miracle of healing the blind man shows that he was begging. What must have happened when the blind man started
Saturday, November 16, 2024 3 Jn 5-8; Lk 18:1-8 Today’s Gospel invites us to have faith in the goodness of God. In the parable of the Persistent Widow, the text repeats twice that the dishonest judge does not fear God nor respect any human being. The fact about the judge is repeated twice to demonstrate
