Scriptures

Friday, September 20

View from the balcony

As we continue along our journey to the Plenary 2020, it is worth reflecting on the parable of the wheat and weeds. The hands wanted to pull out the weeds that an enemy had planted in the crop, but the farmer wisely noted that to do so would kill the wheat too, so intertwined were the roots of both wheat and weeds.

Life in abundance

We have never had so much materially or scientifically. We have a way of life adorned with creature comforts that were unthinkable not so long ago, and with the technology to enable opportunities that formerly we could only dream of.

Seeing Christ every day through the Scriptures

Just around the corner from Pompei in Italy there is a basilica and a hospital for poor, sick children which was established in the 19th century by a doctor called Bartolo Longo.