Fr Marco Writes: The Twenty Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
In the verses…
The Gospel of this Sunday…
Fr Marco LazzaronAssistant Parish PriestA “t that time, Jesus said to Nicodemus: No one has gone up to heaven except the one who came down from heaven, the Son of Man. And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, so that everyone who
Fr Marco LazzaronAssistant Parish PriestT he Gospel reading for this Sunday is one of those that we might be tempted to soften because it’s too demanding. “If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple”. With
Fr Marco LazzaronAssistant Parish PriestJ eremiah lives in a very difficult time for Jerusalem, with besiegers at the gates and the specter of famine, and he tries to lead the people, first and then the commanders, to reasonable decisions to preserve the most precious asset: their own life and that of their country. The pride