Deep Calls to Deep 30th Sunday Ordinary Time – Looking back & looking forward…
Here’s a late post of the audio version of my homily from last week. It sums up the studies of the past week and sets the stage for THIS Sunday’s polemic on hypocrisy of the scribes & Pharisees. Matthew seems to recognize how our divided hearts affect both the way we live and the ways […]
30th Sunday Ordinary Time – Love God with divided souls & minds…
Battered hearts, fearful souls, and prideful minds. Yep, back to that again. So, take these connections Matthew makes to psyche, “soul, life,” as the divine Ink Blot test, the Rorschach Jesus puts out there for our reactions. How do you like his ideals? Matthew 6:25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry […]
30th Sunday Ordinary Time – Loving God with Divided Hearts…
Every day I intend to love God and neighbor. Every day I slip back into the Spiritual Alzheimer’s that characterizes my comfort zone. I spend the rest of the day thinking about what I have to do, about whom I ought impress, about old resentments, and the like. So much for good intentions, eh? The […]
30th Sunday Ordinary Time – “You Will Love the Lord your God…”
I found this odd feature of the Greek verb, agapáo, “to love,” used in Sunday’s gospel. It’s in the future tense. There may be scholars better than I who see this future tense used in the command form – “Thou shalt… Thou shalt not…” That sort of thing. What if… What if Matthew (and the author(s) of […]
Deep Calls to Deep 