Year A Exodus 32:1-14 Psalm 106:1-6, 19-23 Philippians 4:1-9 Matthew 22:1-14 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… My brother carries a gun… no… not everywhere he goes… only when he provides security at a Washington, D.C. area synagogue… I’m not sure when he took firearm training… and got a gun license… and began...
Year A Exodus 20:1-4, 7-9, 12-20 Psalm 19 Philippians 3:4b-14 Matthew 21:33-46 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… The writers of Exodus were familiar with various kinds of legal documents… they knew about many of the different forms used in and around the Near East… and one of them was the suzerain-vassal treaty...
Early one sultry Saturday morning in August, when I was ten years old, my mom and dad packed up my brother and me in the car, and we set off from our home in River Edge, NJ for Lake Hopatcong, which sits about forty miles west of River Edge, mostly along and a little...
Year AExodus 17:1-7Psalm 78:1-4, 12-16Philippians 2:1-13Matthew 21:23-32 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… When I was in school… I disliked quizzes and tests… especially POP quizzes… unleashed on unsuspecting students by teachers who we thought could be nothing less than mean… but who really just wanted to see if...
Year A Exodus 16:2-15 Psalm 105:1-6, 37-45 Philippians 1:21-30 Matthew 20:1-16 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… Our reading from Exodus today… shines a light on… and helps better understand today’s Gospel… because in the wilderness… the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron… as the laborers grumbled against the vineyard owner… in the...