Reflections for February 2023

Today we hear the final section of Jesus’ reformulation of the Law (Mt 5:38-48). He moves on from how we should handle situations where relationships have been damaged (as we saw last week) to the demands of love in any relationship. Even relationships in which we are taken advantage of, even with people who hate […]

“Can’t you just do as you’re told for once!” Maybe you remember being on the receiving end of that comment, or maybe you’ve been on the other side of the conversation. Maybe you’ve been fortunate not to have said it out loud, but haven’t you felt it sometime? Instructions, commandments, “just do it” – they

Other than air and water, salt is the most important need for our physical well-being. Animals will travel miles for it. It was one of the earliest commodities to be traded in human society. If salt were to lose its potency that would indeed be a disaster. So, while being compared to salt may not