Today’s Readings – Sunday of Week 14 of Ordinary Time (Year C)

Commentary on Isaiah 66:10-14; Galatians 6:14-18; Luke 10:1-12,17-20

It is always an experience for people who are committed Christians to be living among people for whom God in practice hardly exists; people who seem to have little direction and meaning in their lives beyond having a job, getting money and indulging in some level of enjoyment. For such Christians the words of Jesus in today’s Gospel passage have much meaning:

The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few...


Certainly those words must have seemed so true for the early Christians as they lived in relatively tiny communities in a sea of paganism and religions steeped in superstition and fatalism. At the time, the Church was truly like the tiny mustard seed or the small measure of yeast swallowed up in a large … Continue

Yesterday’s Readings – Saturday of Week 13 of Ordinary Time - First Reading

Commentary on Genesis 27:1-5,15-29

We jump a couple of chapters in our story today. There is relatively little about Isaac in the Genesis story; he is seen mainly in relationship to his father Abraham and his two sons, Esau and Jacob. Today’s passage begins with Isaac already in h … Continue