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The Word
Embodied
John Kavanaugh,
S. J.
In Our Weakness
Like one act of love, one time of kindness, one moment of courage, growth is imperceptible in the seeding. The mustard seed, once so tiny, becomes a great shrub, the home to wayfaring birds of passage.
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Historical Cultural
Context
John J. Pilch
Enemies And Retaliation
The peasants expect retaliation and revenge. Instead, the landowner appears helpless and bested by his enemies. Before the invention of electricity and television, such feuds provided entertainment for the village.
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Thoughts from the
Early Church
Gregory Palamas
And so the Lord’s servants, the angels of God, seeing the darnel in the field, that is, wicked and impious folk living among good people, and that even within
the Church, said to the Lord: “Do you wish us to go and gather it up?”
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Scripture
In Depth
Reginald H. Fuller
We habitually think of prayer in terms of “me down here” speaking to “God
up there.” But when I pray as a believer, it is not just “me down here”—it is the Spirit of God within me praying to “God up there.”
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