More parables! More puzzles! Last Sunday’s Gospel selection was taken from the opening of Matthew 13, the third of five great sermons Matthew constructed in his Gospel from traditions about Jesus and to meet the needs of his Christian Community.

If I wrote the “penultimate” column in the previous paper, this would be the “ultimate,” the last one. However, as we all know, what appears to be true is not necessarily the whole truth or the whole story, in this case. We’ll see, as my mother told me when I […]

The Gospel of this day is Jesus’ hymn of praise and thanksgiving to his heavenly Father for the gift of revelation. Many of the thoughts expressed in this hymn are similar to thoughts and expressions found in Old Testament Wisdom Literature and in various Old Testament Prophets.