15th Sunday in Ordinary Time (3)

It hasn’t rained for awhile. Most of us know what the earth looks like after a long dry season. The ground becomes hard, the grass disappears, and everything looks brown and lifeless. Then the rain comes - we hope. The ground will become soft, and seeds will begin to …

Dear brother,

The Gospel today brings us into a familiar story. A man lies by the side of the road. Stripped, wounded, half-dead. Two pass by. One stops.

Jesus tells the story and then asks, “Which of these was a neighbour to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?” And …

Last week we heard about a farming metaphor to do with ploughing – we heard Jesus explain that with Him, the yoke is easy and the burden is light. And I tried to explain how this is so because we do not bear our burdens alone, or end up being yoked by ourselves – …