26th Sunday in Ordinary Time (2)

Imagine a scene of a Saturday morning children’s soccer game. There are children of various ages who have come to play soccer against one another. They each have different ideas of what the game is all about. There is the 6-year old boy, who is playing soccer for the first …

In today’s gospel, Jesus addresses some of his most demanding counsels to his disciples: “if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off!” While there have been Christians who have taken Jesus at his word, most notably the great Church father, Origen, who was rumoured to have …