Please read the passage before reading the commentary. Once upon a time there were many peoples. We could divide them into the circumcised or the uncircumcised, into Caucasian, Asian, or African, into citizen or foreigner, into rich or poor, into … Continued
Please read the passage before reading the commentary. In this letter to the Ephesians, St Paul has announced that God has sent Christ into the world to save us in the Church because God has drawn all peoples together, those … Continued
Please read the passage before reading the commentary. You were dead in your transgressions and sins, says St Paul. So was I, and everyone else. Christ was also dead once, not in his sin for he is sinless, but in … Continued
Please read the passage before the homily. You know that the Gentiles lord it over people. Gentiles here is a code word. It means the Romans. The Romans were the conquering people, the people who colonized the Jewish people, taxing … Continued
Por favor, lean este pasaje antes de la homilía. Hermanas y Hermanos, Ustedes saben que los jefes de las naciones las gobiernan como si fueran sus dueños. “Los jefes de las naciones” son un código. Se refiere a los romanos. … Continued
Please read the passage before reading the commentary. We have a reading from the second letter of Paul to Timothy. May people celebrate today as the feast of St Luke, the author of the third Gospel and the Acts of … Continued
Please read the passage before reading the commentary. Paul has been reasoning with the Galatians. Some were wanting to accept circumcision and the works of the law. Paul objected that they had already accepted the Spirit and learned how to … Continued
Please read the passage before reading the commentary. Two women, two mountains, two children, one slave and one free. Generally, when a female slave has a child, the child is a slave even if the father is a freeman. It … Continued
Please read the passage before reading the commentary. Paul has been taking the Galatians to task for replacing their faith in God with law. What is faith? It is not a list of things for us to believe. Rather it … Continued
Please read the passage before reading the commentary. A friend of mind once told me that his dad had lived for three centuries. He was born in 1898 an died in 2005. That would account for the three centuries in … Continued