Month: October 2022

By now, we probably know everything we need to know about tax collectors! If you remember from last week, our Gospel was “The parable of the pharisee and the tax collector praying in the Temple“. We talked extensively about the reasons why tax collectors at Jesus’s time were considered as sinners and how they were…

Today, we have another parable with a couple of characters that seem to be complete opposite: The pharisee and the tax collector. This is not the first time we find a couple of opposite characters in Luke’s Gospel: you probably remember the unjust judge and the widow last week, and recently, we also talked about…

“Do your prayers work?” This question is the question I have been asked the most consistently throughout my ministry. I was prepared to answer all kind of questions: “How do we know that God is real?”, “Did Jesus really exist?”, “How can we prove the Resurrection?”, but the thing is I was never asked any…

The Gospel we have just heard this morning, the healing of the ten lepers, is not one of the most well-known and it’s a passage that can also be a little difficult for us to understand: We don’t know much about the disease of leprosy and we are not very familiar with the customs of…