Good Will
On a hot summer day, my friend and I stepped out of the ice cream shop looking for a shady spot to enjoy our already melting cones. As he stepped off the curb, splat! His chocolate ice cream fell out of the cone to the pavement. Stunned and disappointed, he looked up and saw a […]
If You Don’t Get It, You Don’t Get It
In this week’s Gospel reading,* Jesus tells a parable about two men who had gone to the Temple to pray. One was a Pharisee, whose prayer reminded God that he wasn’t like other people, but someone who conscientiously followed demanding spiritual practices. The other was a tax collector, slumped in a dark corner not daring […]
Keeping the Faith
When the path that Jesus’s followers were travelling got difficult, Jesus wanted to encourage them to not lose faith, so he told them a story about a widow who keeps knocking on the door of an unjust judge.* We don’t really know anything about the case, except that widows in that time and place were […]
Have Mercy
Jesus is on his way to Jerusalem and ten lepers cry out to him for mercy. When Jesus sees them he instructs that they go show themselves to the priests. As they go, they are made clean. One man, a Samaritan, realizing he is healed on the way, turns back to Jesus and falls at […]