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Jesus and fire

Whenever I hear the Gospel that we have for this Sunday, I always think of my six years as a seminary student out in Rome.
It is still summer: relax … but be alert and prepared!

The summer seems to be racing by at such a rapid pace (but then it always seems to do so!) and I think that soon we will be beginning to enter what we call those “dog days of summer.”
Gaining wisdom of heart

Many of Jesus’ parables are “hard to hear” because they are so challenging.
Ask, seek, knock … be amazed as the door opens!

In our Genesis reading, Abraham takes the respectful posture of prayer with the LORD, “drawing nearer” and beginning his request that God should spare the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah because of the innocent people living there.
Celebrating hospitality

The theme of hospitality is so palpable in our readings this Sunday and it deepens this theme from last Sunday’s Scriptures.

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Jesus and fire