Is Jesus contradicting himself? Last Sunday, we heard about our obligation as Christians to correct someone who sins. We were reminded that it was an act of love to bring people to acknowledge and repent of their wrongdoing. But today’s Gospel seems to contradict that: the clear lesson that it teaches us, is that we should forgive each other, and not just that, but we should not set any limits to our forgiveness. That is what is meant by Jesus’ statement that we should forgiv

In today’s Gospel, Jesus gives us some guidelines about how to deal with ruptures in a community. This presupposes something that is easy to overlook: that we are called to communion in the first place. So, what does this mean, to be called to communion? One approach is to go back to the beginning of Scripture. In the book of Genesis, we hear that “God created man in his own image, in his own image he created him, male and female he created them.” So, we are created in th

Today’s psalm, Psalm 62, contains a beautiful description of the total love and dedication that the psalmist has for God. The psalmist says his very soul thirsts for God. He looks eagerly to see God. God’s love is better than life. Today’s opening prayer also speaks about love for the name of God. Things like this make life in God seem deeply attractive. What a shock then to turn to our first reading from the prophet, Jeremiah, to see a very different kind of profession of