As gospels go this is my favourite in all the year—and not just because I get to watch all your faces fall when you hear those words of Matthew’s: “A genealogy of Jesus Christ, son of David, son of Abraham…” The mind-numbing litany we get today hardly seems a good way for Matthew to open …
Monthly Archives: December 2003
17th December
I get a great view up here of your faces when those first words of Matthew’s ring out: “A genealogy of Jesus Christ, son of David, son of Abraham…” And it’s not a pretty sight. The mind-numbing litany that follows hardly seems the way for Matthew to begin his gospel, his one attempt at Good …
St Francis Xavier
I have one image of Francis Xavier that I hold dear. It isn’t of him before the warlords of Japan; it isn’t of him baptising thousands in one day; it isn’t even of him dying within sight of that further shore his zeal for souls urged him onto. My image is a more humble one. …