The Eighth Sunday of Ordinary Time
27 February 2022 at Saint William & Saint Agnes & Saint Peter Catholic Churches in Naples, FL
Sirach 27, 4-7 + Psalm 92 + 1 Corinthians 15, 54-58+ Luke 6, 39-45
A wise Jesuit once taught me that what Jesus warns against is the danger of judging not actions but the human heart.
With that in mind we take up one last time a part of the great Sermon on the Plain from which we have read for the past four weeks. What we have today is a series of three unrelated separate sayings of Jesus gathered into one place. Shorter than Matthew’s Sermon on the Mount, this is a short list of absolutely essential components of authentic Christianity. … more »