Thursday, December 14, 2023 Is 41:13-20; Mt 11:11-15 Today’s Gospel insists on the radicality of commitment as the fitting response to the fierce opposition to the Gospel. If ‘desperate times call for desperate measures,’ the attack on the Goodnews can only be countered with a profound measure of our goodness. In other words, only our […]
Wednesday, December 13, 2023 Is 40:25-31; Mt 11:28-30 William Barclay has an interesting anecdote for the verse, ‘My yoke is easy and my burden light.’ ‘There is a legend that Jesus made the best ox-yokes in all Galilee, and that from all over the country men came to him to buy the best yokes that
Tuesday, December 12, 2023 Is 40:1-11; Mt 18:12-14 Today’s Gospel demonstrates the radical difference that divine calculation is characterized by. The parable of the lost sheep constructs an image of Jesus who looks ‘weird and unreasonable.’ Who would leave the ninety-nine sheep that stayed under the command of the shepherd to go in search of
