How might Jesus’ conversation regarding authority with the chief priests and elders and his subsequent parable about the two sons working in the vineyard impact our faith lives today and this week?
The mission of God, through Christ, is to bring about beloved community through individual transformation.
This week, we look at St Scholastica, twin sister of St Benedict, by tradition the founder of the Benedictine order of nuns
“Across this nation, the false prophet of these revivals is systematically drowning out the cries of communities gasping for air with cries to the false idol of human ego. Instead of caring for those who are in actual distress they distress themselves with the fiction that they are silenced, banned, and their civil liberties attacked.”
“Undoubtedly Jesus knew of the illness by this time and very probably offered to help. Immediately after he rebuked the fever (which people associated with possession of evil in those days), the mother-in-law immediately got out of bed and headed for the kitchen to cook for the whole group as if she’d never been ill.”