The Gospel challenges the idea that God sends suffering to test or challenge or strengthen us and insists that God desires only good for us. We do not have to badger God or bargain with God to give us good things.

The Gospel today shows us in parable form what the “greed that is idolatry” looks like.

Sometimes we need to be helped out of our rationalizations for not doing what our listening heart prompts us to do.

Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (C), July 18, 2010

Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (C), July 4, 2010

Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (C), June 27, 2010