Weekly reflections on the Gospel proclaimed, offering interpretations approached with humility — attentive to the text, accountable to its demands, and aware of their own limits.
In this, the third Sunday of Ordinary Time, the Gospel reading opens not with triumph but with absence. John the Baptist has been imprisoned, his voice silenced by power threatened by what it cannot control. It is at this moment that Jesus begins His public ministry, taking up John’s message rather than abandoning it: “Repent, for the […]
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In this week’s appointed reading (John 1:29–34), John the Baptist points away from himself and toward Jesus. It is a moment of recognition—a testimony to who stands before him—and very much a continuation of last week’s story. Rather than rehashing what was already discussed just last week, I thought I’d look instead to last year’s
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Christianity is, at its core, steeped in Torah. Jesus was a Jew, and he made it clear that he did not come to abolish Torah or revoke covenant, but to uphold both. His is often called “the greatest story ever told”—not because an institution claims it as such, but because no other story in human
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