Friday, December 15, 2023 Is 48:17-19; Mt 11:16-19 Today’s Gospel invites us to honestly encounter the truth. An encounter with the truth results in transformation. Nevertheless, we find that people see only what they are prepared to see. In the process, there is a distortion of truth and lies conveniently presented. The lives of Jesus […]
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
