Matthew 15:21-28, 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time Never in my life has the question of race featured so much in public discourse as it has in the last week. Aside from the usual racist rhetoric, which reveal deep currents of prejudice within our society, what has been worrying is the normalisation of hatred directed towards…
Day: August 20, 2017
Son of David – John Foley, SJ
Matthew 15:21-28, 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time Sunday’s Gospel can give a headache to preachers and to regular Catholics both. Jesus refuses to heal a woman because she is, in his metaphor, one of the “dogs.” Whaaaaat? You know the story. The woman cries out for help, and Jesus will not even talk to her….
Behind – Arnel Aquino, SJ
Matthew 15:21-28, 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time Allow me to briefly explain tonight’s troubling Gospel. According to the commentaries, the Matthean community had two voices: the particularist and the universalist. The particularist voice in the community taught that Jesus came to the world to save first “the children of Israel”; so Jews first, then the…
One Lost Sheep 