The Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time [B]
Genesis 18:20-32 + Colossians 2:12-14 + Luke 11:1-13
July 24, 2016
“What father among you would hand his son a snake when he asks for a fish?”
When my younger brother and I were little, we got into a fight one day while playing football. In the midst of this fight my two front teeth were chipped, and they still are today. So I always think of brother whenever I brush or floss. It’s odd: the connections that stick in our minds.
But discord is part and parcel of life in this fallen world. The great British writer G. K. Chesterton once said that Original Sin is the simplest Christian dogma to prove: all you have to do is pick up the newspaper (or in our day, click on a news app…). Continue reading