21st Sunday in Ordinary Time (3)

In today’s gospel, Jesus comes across as very hard hitting. When he says that the Kingdom of God can only be entered through a narrow door, he makes it seem like the Kingdom of God is an elite club, into which only a few manage to make it. Yet, the whole of Jesus’ preaching …

In 2018, Pete Davis a Graduate student at Harvard Law gave the commencement address at his graduation. He spoke of an experience that will perhaps be familiar to many of us of being up late at night looking for a movie to watch on Netflix. Even after watching numerous …

Today’s readings are all about who’s in and who’s out. Most of us, I would assume, like belonging to groups that give us an identity, and we are deeply hurt by being left out. Often, members of a club will deliberately aim to keep their membership small and keep the majority …