Twentieth-seventh Sunday of Ordinary Time-A This week, Jesus offers another parable to the chief priests and scribes. The parable offers insight into how the Kingdom of God works. Like many parables, it presents conflict between parties and plays it out with a moral lesson.In our story today, an authoritative figure owns a vineyard and invests … Continue reading The Kingdom Will Be Given to Those Who Produce Fruit
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Doing the Father’s Will
Twenty-sixth Sunday of Ordinary Time-A Socrates once taught that a life devoid of self-reflection is no life at all. In today’s Gospel, Jesus challenges his listeners to examine their lives through the story of a father and his two sons. He asks the chief priests and elders for their opinion about two different ways a … Continue reading Doing the Father’s Will
The Problem with Human Projection
Twenty-Fifth Sunday- A Ludwig Feuerbach, the nineteenth-century German philosopher who greatly influenced Karl Marx, postulated that the existence of God, the idea of God, is simply a tendency of human beings to create an ideal being with all of our best qualities. In other words, God is nothing more than a person's projection of a … Continue reading The Problem with Human Projection