I have often noted that some of St. Paul’s letters are akin to listening to one side of a telephone conversation. You really don’t know what the other person is saying, you can only guess based on the response that you can hear. This is especially true of the 1st Letter to the Corinthians from which we take our first reading for today. Continue reading
This coming weekend is the 24th Sunday of Ordinary Time. In yesterday’s posts we consider the parable of the Lost Sheep in the context of the recurring Lucan theme of “Celebrating the Lost and Now Found.”
8 “Or what woman having ten coins and losing one would not light a lamp and sweep the house, searching carefully until she finds it? 9 And when she does find it, she calls together her friends and neighbors and says to them, ‘Rejoice with me because I have found the coin that I lost.’ 10 In just the same way, I tell you, there will be rejoicing among the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”
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