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Today’s gospel stated that there were so many people crowding together that they were trampling one another underfoot. My first thought was they were not practicing “social distancing“. I guess I have been in this pandemic so long I have weird thoughts ! Jesus is today speaking about the hypocrisy of the Read more…

Today Christ is telling us about essentials. The Pharisees on the other hand were focused on their traditions. Many of these were good and were initiated to help people, but they lost sight of their meaning rather than strict observance of their traditions. The Pharisees replaced a loving relationship with rituals. So let’s get Read more…

After Jesus dismissed the crowd in today’s Gospel, he went up the mountain by himself to pray. He was willing to leave the comfort of others to be alone with God. Being alone in silence away from others for a long period of time can, for us humans, sometimes lead to loneliness Read more…

The food that fed the large crowd was the food that the disciples had there to use. It wasn’t like Jesus made bread come down from heaven or fish come out of the grass. Jesus simply took what the disciples had and used that meager bit of food to feed everybody there. The Read more…