27th Sunday in Ordinary Time (2)

Maude was a devout Catholic woman in her sixties. For most of her life, she desired to go and visit the holy places in Rome. But Maude was terrified of flying. She realized that she was not getting any younger, and, if she was ever going to make it to Rome, she would have to …

It is noteworthy that the foundational and archetypal human relationship, as presented in our first reading today, is one of man-wife and not parent-child, or sibling-sibling. For the vast majority of us, the foundational relationship of our lives is mother-child. It is …