Today we finish our Church year with the Feast of Christ the King. It feels somehow appropriate that we should complete our annual cycle with a recognition of the power and majesty of our Savior, even as we may be already looking forward to the next season, which returns to the simplicity and powerlessness reflected […]
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The parable of the talents is always a bit of a head scratcher (Mt 25:14-30). Jesus so often asserts the value of the weak, the poor, the inadequate, and wants us to recognize that the typical values in any society which glorifies wealth and strength and power are not the values that will bring us
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This week we have a nice simple parable: “Be prepared.” (Mt 25:1-13) But there is a little more to it. What are we to be prepared for? We don’t really know, when or even how whatever will happen will happen. Waiting overnight for the bridegroom is one thing. Waiting millennia for the return of Jesus isn’t
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Over the last few weeks we’ve heard Jesus go back and forth with the scribes, the Pharisees, the Sadducees, the Herodians, and just about everyone who was anyone in the government of the time. Today we hear his summary (Mt 23:1-12). Basically he says, don’t trust them. They may talk the talk, but they don’t
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