The other night I watched the film, “In order of disappearance”, shown on the BBC. It’s about a father who, once he realises his son’s apparent suicide was anything but, takes revenge on a drug cartel for having murdered his son. The film shows the impact of the son’s death...
Jesus is about thirty years old in the Gospel scene of today’s Mass. He’s just come from what we traditionally call his hidden life, the thirty years spent at Nazareth, growing up subject to Mary and Joseph, growing in wisdom and understanding before God and man. We know that already...
It was dangerous to be a Christian in the first century in Rome. Christianity was seen as an enemy of the Empire. Many Christians were put to death by horrible forms of torture like being beaten to death or thrown to the lions. To survive, Christians built the catacombs, underground...
There are three main characters in today’s readings. Taking them in chronological order, they are Job, Jesus and Paul. The book of Job, remember, is a parable about innocent suffering. Its point is to show that trust in God in the midst of suffering will eventually perfect the one suffering...
