Nevertheless

I’m imagining myself sitting with a movie producer, presenting my treatment of today’s Gospel passage* for adaptation into a short film. It’s a story, I’d tell him, about a massive crowd of people who have lost their way, and one apparently insignificant woman on whom our gaze will rest at the movie’s end. It’s an […]

Self-Emptying Love

I feel such tenderness for the exchange in today’s gospel reading (Mark 10:17-31) between Jesus and a man who has a deep desire to do the right thing. I feel Jesus’ heart go out to him. The man comes to this “good” teacher no doubt having heard about the goodness Jesus has been projecting across […]