Month: November 2023

“In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.”These famous words from John of the Cross, a Spanish mystic in the 16th century, come resonate in me as I read the “Parable of the final judgment“, the last parable in Matthew’s Gospel, the parable the lectionary leaves us with as we wrap…

You’re probably all aware that we are reaching the end of our liturgical year, in two weeks we will be in Advent, and with the end of the liturgical year we are hearing the last lessons from Matthew’s Gospel. They are not the easiest ones. They are what we call the “Parables of judgment”: The…

All Saints’ Day in one of those very rare occasions where we get to read from the Book of Revelation, at least in mainline protestant churches. There is a good reason for that, and it probably has to do with the fact that the Book of Revelation is a bit suspicious to us. By that,…