Month: September 2022

It’s interesting because last week we were in the first part of this chapter 16 of Luke, and we had a parable that seemed difficult to understand – if you remember, it was the story of the “dishonest manager”. Today, we continue in this chapter 16, the second half of the chapter, and Jesus remains…

Before we have a look at another new parable for this Sunday, it would be helpful I think to take a little time with our first reading, this short passage from the book of Amos. If you don’t know Amos, he was a prophet who lived in the 8th century before Christ, and he preached…

By now, we are quite familiar with the notion that Jesus told parables to help people think about their lives. Rather than giving people instructions, Jesus asked them questions so they could change their mind about a certain number of things, a certain number of people, and even change their minds about God. In the…

There are a few sayings in the Gospel known as the “difficult words of Jesus” and we certainly encounter some of them today in the first verses of our passage. Jesus says to the crowd: “Whoever comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brother and sisters, yes, and even…