Gospel

Mark 6:31
Commentary on Mark 6:30-34, 53-56

Many Christians don’t have a sense of what a spiritual [...]

John 6:11
Commentary on John 6:1-21

Like the earlier figures of Moses and Elisha, Jesus proclaims a message of God’s abundance [...]

Mark 10:14
Commentary on Mark 10:2-16

Beware this week. As soon as you read the word “divorce” aloud, a whole sermon [...]

Amos 5:11
Commentary on Mark 10:17-31

The first thing to say about this text, and hopefully not the last thing to [...]

Mark 10:39
Commentary on Mark 10:35-45

Following hot on the heels of the rich young man who goes away grieving, this [...]

Mark 10:47
Commentary on Mark 10:46-52

The tale of blind Bartimaeus is a bit uncanny in Mark’s Gospel — because nothing [...]

Mark 12:31
Commentary on Mark 12:28-34 

There is no limit to the amount of work to be done in the church [...]

1 Kings 17:12
Commentary on Mark 12:38-44 

Over the ages, Jesus has been persistently inconvenient for the elite classes of his and [...]

Mark 13:2
Commentary on Mark 13:1-8

As a young man I remember when this gospel lesson was the text used for [...]

2 Samuel 23:3-4
Commentary on John 18:33-37

In 1925, Pope Pius XI instituted a new liturgical observance, the Feast of Christ the [...]