The relationship of Jesus to the Torah the Law of Moses is a decidedly complex issue in general In the case of specifics such as the kosher or dietary laws it can be just as complex The Gospel reading for the Memorial of Saint Scholastica virgin February 10 Mark 7 14-23 is indeed complex

The Gospel reading for the Tuesday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time Mark 7 1-13 nbsp raises the issue of tradition the theme of my last post on 1 Corinthians 15 1-13 but in this context it is raised in terms of condemnation At least a superficial or initial reading points to condemnation of

You must sing the title as in Fiddler on the Roof Go back and try it if you did not this blog post will improve greatly with the sound of the song ringing in your ears Paul s beautiful demonstration of the reality of Christ rsquo s resurrection is based on the tradition of the early Church of w

This Sunday we have the second half of a story Luke means to introduce in a schematical way the entire rest of his Gospel nbsp Jesus had explained the purpose of his Baptism to announce a year which signaled God s good will a year of nbsp beginning a new covenant of divine union with God s peopl

We are coming to the end of our course ldquo The Cradle of Early Christianity rdquo after time spent journeying from Athens to Thessalonica to Philippi to Pergamum modern Bergama nbsp Smyrna modern Izmir Ephesus and Constantinople Istanbul nbsp We have surveyed the ruins of numero

In Chapter 3 Luke presented a traditional story about what occurred around the time of Jesus baptism this story in the main agrees with what we read nbsp Matthew and Mark nbsp But it is Luke who returns for a moment to that coming of the Spirit upon Jesus in order to explain a purpose for tha