Browsing: Reflection

It isn’t often that I look at the three Sunday readings and discover them as a unified whole, there is always the problem of our second reading seeming slightly difficult to weave into the pairing that is the OT first reading and the gospel, there is of course a link through our second reading, more…

I’m mostly in denial that I’m getting older. I often find myself saying, “Let’s just not think about it. I’ll pretend it isn’t going to happen.”

1 Kings 3:5, 7–12Psalm 119:57, 72, 76–77, 127–128, 129–130Romans 8:28–30Matthew 13:44–52

In an age when it seems everyone wants to have more, be more, say more, achieve more, we’re introduced this week to another idea that some might consider radical.It’s about the virtue of less. This Gospel celebrates humility and “the little ones.”