The text of the 2nd reading of today’s Feast of the Holy Family (Col.3:12-21) could possibly provoke a verbal reaction: IMPOSSIBLE! To the Colossians – and to us – Paul says: “Clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience…” And to this list, forgiveness and love are added for […]
8th Sunday of the Year, A
We can paint pictures – with paintbrushes and colours. A stroke here, a line there, a brushing here, an addition there and… we get an image, a representation of something, of someone. But we can also paint… with words: the description of a scene, the evocation of an event, the […]