Thursday Week 24 Year I

Isn’t there a contrast between those two readings? Listen… Noble, respectable, impeccable, responsible, reliable, moderate, sober, temperate, discreet, courteous—what a list of requirements—how many can you tick off for yourself? How many of Jesus’ disciples could lay claim to those qualities? You know what the writer is saying—it’s not that it doesn’t make sense to …

St Clare

Bear with me… Listen to what theologian and naturalist Annie Dillard has to say about experiencing a total eclipse: “… I heard screams. People on all the hillsides, including, I think, myself, screamed when the black body of the moon detached from the sky and rolled over the sun. But something else was happening at …