From the Sunday Note, with additional thoughts: The fruit of a tree shows the care it has had; so too does one’s speech disclose the bent of one’s mind. Praise no one before he speaks, for it is then that people are tested. Sirach 27:6-7 from Sunday’s first reading “A good tree does not…
Month: February 2022
Is it easy? No… but possible.
From the Sunday Note, with additional thoughts… But rather, love your enemies and do good to them, and lend expecting nothing back; then your reward will be great and you will be children of the Most High, for he himself is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked. Be merciful, just as your Father is…
Suffering? Speak!
From the Sunday Note, with additional thoughts… Jesus came down with the Twelve and stood on a stretch of level ground with a great crowd of his disciples and a large number of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the coastal region of Tyre and Sidon. And raising his eyes toward his disciples he…
Practice, practice, practice…
From the Sunday Note, with additional thoughts… While the crowd was pressing in on Jesus and listening to the word of God, he was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret. He saw two boats there alongside the lake; the fishermen had disembarked and were washing their nets. Getting into one of the boats, the one belonging…
Opening our minds and hearts a little at a time…
From the Sunday Note, with additional thoughts… He came to Nazareth, where he had grown up, and went according to his custom into the synagogue on the sabbath day. He stood up to read and was handed a scroll of the prophet Isaiah. He unrolled the scroll and found the passage where it was written: The…