18th Sunday in Ordinary Time (3)

There is a story told of a wandering hermit who having walked all day in a forest came to a small village on the outskirts of the forest. Just as the sun was setting, a man from the village appeared and said that he had been told by an angel to go and see hermit who would be …

In my early years as a Jesuit, I had occasion to live in a rural mission in Zimbabwe. Being a rural mission, we were not a very wealthy community and had to live quite a simple lifestyle, there were not many luxuries in our diet and our fare was quite basic. There would …

In our first reading today, we see the people of Israel moaning about the hardships of life in the desert and looking wistfully back at their life of slavery in Egypt. We might be surprised at this attitude – surely freedom is far better than slavery no matter the cost. If …