I do find myself feeling a certain amount of sympathy for Pilate in the exchange he has with Jesus in today’s gospel (Jn 18:33b-37). He’s been handed this hot potato by the Jewish leaders, who he trusts about as far as he could throw them. He doesn’t care whether Jesus thinks he’s a king or […]
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Daniel in our first reading (Dn 12:1-3) talks of “a time unsurpassed in distress”. Mark (Mk 13:24-32) recounts Jesus saying: “In those days after that tribulation the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will be falling from the sky, and the powers in the heavens will
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Reading today’s Gospel (Mk 12:38-44) it would be easy to take away the message that we should be giving more to charity. The poor widow is an example to us. But is that what Jesus was getting at? – give until you’ve got nothing left. Mark sets the context of the story very clearly. Jesus
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We make choices all the time. They range from the trivial (what shall I have for breakfast) to the profound (will I marry this person). Some are so easy to make we don’t even notice ourselves doing it, some we agonize over for days or months. How do we make that choice, how we reach
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