From the Sunday Note, with additional thoughts: Jesus said to the Pharisees: “There was a rich man who dressed in purple garments and fine linen and dined sumptuously each day. And lying at his door was a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who would gladly have eaten his fill of the scraps that…
Month: September 2022
Pray for those hard to pray for…
From the Sunday Note, with additional thoughts: Beloved: First of all, I ask that supplications, prayers, petitions, and thanksgivings be offered for everyone, for kings and for all in authority, that we may lead a quiet and tranquil life in all devotion and dignity. This is good and pleasing to God our savior, who wills…
Make Sure You Can Be Found In the “Lost and Found”
From the Sunday Note, with additional thoughts– Sunday’s Gospel is the entire 15th chapter of Luke (verses 1-32, the parables of the Lost Sheep and the Lost Coin, plus the extended parable of the Prodigal Son). And that Gospel has an interesting relationship with the 2nd Reading from Paul’s First Letter to Timothy (1Tim. 1:12-17)….
Be decisively a disciple!
From the Sunday Note, with additional thoughts: Great crowds were traveling with Jesus, and he turned and addressed them, “If anyone comes to me without hating his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. Whoever does not carry his own cross and come…