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Freewheeling

- 2 August 2024 0

Latin employs two words for work: Opus and Labor. The first indicates the kind of work that God does. Opus connotes a freewheeling type of work, gratuitous ... Read More

What is that among so many?

- 26 July 2024 0

The Jewish Passover approaches and Jesus sees a huge crowd, intrigued by the signs he works, particularly the curing of the sick. Jesus, as usual, ... Read More

Hijacks Jesus

- 19 July 2024 0

Emerging from the Gospel are three important spiritual matters: After being sent out: The Twelve rejoin Jesus and tell him all they have done and ... Read More

Indolence

- 11 July 2024 0

Since the middle of the 20th Century, popes have been incessant in their call for all the baptised to share their faith in the midst of their ... Read More

‘Nowhere-Nazareth’

- 5 July 2024 0

The Gospel brings us into the world of unbelief. Jesus lived in Nowhere-Nazareth. His teaching astonished his friends (relations), but they couldn’t accept him: Where did the man ... Read More

Sandwich

- 28 June 2024 0

Apparently, Mark utilises a literary technique called a ‘sandwich.’ A sandwich requires two pieces of bread and an eatable middle. The Gospel has just this: ... Read More

Be Muzzled

- 20 June 2024 0

  When nature is powerful, she is destructive: It began to blow a gale and the waves were breaking into the boat so that it ... Read More