Ut Aliis Tradere

Now, instead of asking a question about the law, that is, what do we do about the fact that NONE of these men left heirs, or instead of questioning after husband number two just why these men were kicking off (I have watched way too many true crime shows), the Sadducees ask Jesus, "In the Resurrection, whose wife will she be?" never mind the fact that the Sadducees did not even believe that there would be a resurrection in the first place.

What we see in the Zacchaeus story is one of the dishonourable who has heard Our Lord's message and took it to heart and chose the path of God's honour, disavowing the path that won him honour in the eyes of the rich and powerful.

If God is anything, He is the summit of all truth. Pretense and play-acting and self-promotion are ineffective with Him because He always sees to the heart of the person before Him.

Persistence, not losing heart, not succumbing to despair all revolve around keeping faith. We talk about faith all the time. We “keep the faith,” we “practice the faith,” we “walk by faith,” we are “saved by faith,” we are “members of the faith,” we “live by faith,” but do we really understand faith?

What is noteworthy, and Jesus points this out in several places, a saving faith can be found outside the context of a favoured people. Indeed, Jesus spent much of His ministry debunking the concept of a favoured people...

Did you ever notice that rich people do not fare very well in Holy Scripture?...Perhaps preachers of a prosperity Gospel should take earnest note.

After all, the statement seems so antithetical to everything Our Lord preached and taught.

[A reflection on the Gospel reading for the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, Sunday, September 14, 2025. This and the other readings may be...

Welcome to the philosophy of the shock statement, that introduction meant to stun listeners out of their preoccupation and in appalled fascination listen for the follow-up.

As always, Jesus is teaching His listeners, us included, fundamentals of life in the Kingdom of God in the context with which His followers were familiar.

How are we to fulfil the promises we made at our baptism if we have no idea to Whom we have made these promises?

[A reflection on the Gospel for the Ninth Sunday after Pentecost, August 10, 2025, which may be found with the other readings for Mass at...

When we explain the passage as Martha inverting her priorities and Jesus scolding her for it, we have fallen into a simplistic explanation that totally misses the point and unfairly paints Martha as a vapid socialite.

hat is what it means to be created in the Image of God: doing mercy, loving one's neighbour as one's self.

This is something we often forget in our divided and polarized world, the world of "us" versus "them" that the Gospel of the Kingdom of God is held out and offered to all, without exception.