For all of human history, we have been tempted to think we can take better care of ourselves than God can. The first reading condemns justifying worry as responsibility – it’s a form of vanity that keeps us from trusting God. The Gospel extends this teaching into our financial anxiety. Building up wealth and security […]
In the first reading, the Psalm, and the Gospel, we are reminded that God is moved by our relationship with Him. This doesn’t mean that God does what we want if we just ask long and hard enough, but rather that our prayers, presence and relationship affect God’s heart. Just as the people we love […]
This story of Martha and Mary is not about prayer being more important than kitchen work; it’s about what happens when we are not present to where we are called. In each and every moment, we can only be in one place, and sometimes we like where we are better than other times. It is […]
Loving God and your neighbour is not just what we believe — it is what we are asked to live. Salvation is not a gift offered to those who think all the right things, but to people whose lives reflect the truth God reveals. It isn’t enough that you know what the right thing is […]
Too often, our ideas of abundance are informed by worldly understandings of wealth. The instructions Jesus gives to His disciples stand in contrast to any hope or expectation we have that following God means a guarantee of material excess. Jesus sends the disciples out two by two, and asks them to rely on the provision […]