Reflections for July 2024

We all need food. It is one of our most basic needs. But it’s not just an individual need, it’s also something we need as as a society, as a community. A society that is short of food can collapse into chaos very quickly. Many, if not most, of the revolutions and drastic social disruptions […]

Jesus and the disciples are starting to suffer the challenges of fame: you are followed everywhere; you never get a moment’s peace; no time even to eat (Mk 6:30-34). Some people seek fame, most would prefer to avoid it. Princess Diana was a classic example of someone who certainly didn’t seek it and definitely suffered from

The directions Jesus gives his disciples as he sends them out seem pretty strange: “He instructed them to take nothing for the journey but a walking stick — no food, no sack, no money in their belts. They were, however, to wear sandals but not a second tunic.” (Mk 6:7-13) For those who may start packing

Continuing with Mark’s stories about faith, today we seem to head in a different direction (Mk 6:1-6). Unlike previous stories which told of faith and healing, we are now faced with absence of faith, and no healing, or at least none that Mark thinks worthy of elaboration. Our first reading (Ez 2:2-5) further emphasizes that