21st Sunday in Ordinary Time (3)

The readings today speak of something we often find hard to hold together: God’s wide welcome, and the narrow road He asks us to walk. The gates of the kingdom are thrown open, but the way is still steep. And yet this is our path—whether we are priests or students, elders or …

Today we are asked to contemplate authority and to pray for those in authority. Authority is legitimate power, and in our readings today we see how certain individuals are legitimized, and what power is given to them by the ultimate authority, the one whom Peter calls the …

Our readings today address a disappointed people but they offer a universal hope of salvation – not a guarantee, but a promise that all are welcome.

We know that 200 years after the text of Isaiah was written, there was great disappointment among the Jews after their exile, …