There is a short introduction to our passage that has been added on by the lectionary. Indeed, we start with verse 1 of Chapter 14 and then we skip a few verses, where Jesus heals a man with dropsy on the Sabbath Day, to get directly to the dinner invitation and Jesus’s teaching on this…
Month: August 2025
Proper 16(C) – Healing on the Sabbath Day (Isaiah 58: 9b-14, Luke 13: 10-17)
If the story we have just heard sounds familiar, there is a good reason for that! There are at least six occurrences in the Gospel of Jesus healing on a Sabbath Day (Healing of Simon Peter’s mother in law, the man with a withered hand, the crippled woman, the man with dropsy, the man at…
Proper 13(C) – All is Vanity (Ecclesiastes 1:2, 12-14; 2: 18-23)
Today is our one Sunday in the whole liturgical year with a lesson from the Book of Ecclesiastes, so I thought it would be worth it to give it a little bit of our attention. If you don’t know the Book of Ecclesiastes, also called Qoheleth, well you have nothing to feel bad about since…