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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

Please read the passage before reading the commentary We have a series of readings from Paul’s letter to the Galatians.  Galatia   It included north-central Turkey and south towards the Mediterranean.  Paul had visited the southern portion of the Galatia. When … Continued

Please read the passage before the homily. This passage about marriage is sandwiched between two cases about children.  Perhaps the best discussion about marriage and divorce is to consider the interaction of Jesus with these children. The book of Deuteronomy … Continued

Por favor, lean este pasaje antes de la homilía. Hermanas y Hermanos, Este pasaje sobre matrimonio se intercala entre dos casos sobre los niños.  Tal vez la mejor discusión sobre el matrimonio y el divorcio es considerar la interacción de … Continued

Please read the passage before reading the commentary God spoke to Job.  God said that Job was not asking the right questions, that Job understood neither God nor the inner workings of the solar system and universe or of anything … Continued

Please read the passage before reading the commentary We plow fields, plant seeds and uproot weeds, all in the hope of a bountiful harvest or beautiful flowers.  We do not ask the earth if it hurts to plow it.  We … Continued

Please read the passage before reading the commentary It is said that virtue lies in the middle. On one extreme, we have Job who is quintessentially the good and honorable person.  On the other we have total disaster of Job’s … Continued

Please read the passage before the homily. Who is in and who is not is?  Who is insider and who is outsider?  The child is the greatest.  The person who sneaks in and heals in the name of Jesus is … Continued