Join David Moxon, Cynthia Piper & Rocio Figueroa in conversation with John O’Connor reflecting on the scriptures for the Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Read these scriptures at this link.
David refers to the reflections of Dr. Kenneth Bailey on this parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector. Find the Youtube reflection at this link.
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The heart of the home in years past was the hearth.
It was at the hearth that the family gathered for the warmth and light of the flame and the food that was prepared there.
The fire was treated with respect since the same flame which provided energy for the home could just as easily destroy it.
The Israelites in their forty years in the desert were journeying from captivity to freedom, but the struggle of their desert years made them vulnerable to attack from every temptation as today’s first reading continues
I’m not sure if children today are told the great story of the Emperor’s New Clothes, but if not let’s make sure that the parable is taught at all schools of higher learning.
A few years ago I discovered the wonderful way that God uses my imagination in my prayer.
Such openness to imagination when seeking God does not take us away from reality into fantasy but instead brings me into what is most real and inescapably personal and intimate.
A couple of thousand years ago, a young Jewish woman was going about her normal morning routines, perhaps with a mixture of house and garden work, chatting with parents and neighbours, aware of the local drought, the sickness of a neighbour and annoyed by the neighbourhood’s lack of sleep caused by the Romans’ noisy party the night before, when God broke into her routine and entered her life in a new and powerful way.
Thanks everyone you’ve made this so interesting with your stories and contemporary images and brought deeper understanding of this well known gospel story.
Thank you once again! Very deep, thought-provoking and at times very moving in its’ truth and simplicity.