Month: March 2025

The passage of the Gospel we have heard this morning is considered as one of the most beautiful stories Jesus has ever told. One of the most beautiful if not the most beautiful one. It is known as the “Parable of the Prodigal Son”. “Prodigal”, of course, should not be confounded with “prodigy”, because it…

One of the things I said I wanted to explore with you during this Lent was the many ways in which the Scriptures teach us how to deal with evil, to resist and overcome evil. In this regard, I think we have a great example of that with this passage from the New Testament, where…

If you were at church last week, you probably have noticed the stark contrast we have between the Gospel we have heard then and the passage we have today: From the mountaintop and the glory of the Transfiguration to the wilderness, where we encounter a famished and exhausted Jesus. But we’re actually reading backwards: If…

Today is the Last Sunday after the Epiphany and, as it is the use, we hear the story of the Transfiguration. There are actually two ways of looking at this story, and the lectionary gives us the option to do either one of them: We can, if you will, read the “theatrical version”, the short…