Gospel of Matthew, Chapter 13, verses 44-52
Jesus presents us yet more parables about what the Kingdom of God is like - this time using images of treasure found and nets in the water.  But the addition that this series of parables give us that the past two weeks did not is our own involvement.  We are active participants in this parable and our decision is crucial.  What is the Kingdom of God worth to us and what are we prepared to set aside to embrace it?  And when, exactly, do we do this?  Molly Zenk sits alongside me for this conversation and shares her opinions as well.
Special thanks to Bridget Zenk for her composition and performing of our intake and outtake music.  Thank you for taking the time to open yourself to the Word of God!  May it find a home within your heart and life this day.  Comments?  Send them my way at [email protected]

Gospel for the 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time - Matthew 13:24-35
Jesus shares with us three more parables, once again using images simple to understand such as planting seeds in a garden, a mustard seed and yeast.  All of these things point us to the Kingdom of God.  They also point us to ourselves.  We are that garden and we are filled with both wheat and weeds.  Jesus says to let them grow together.  Now why on earth would He say that?
Special thanks to Bridget Zenk for her composition and performing of our intake and outtake music.  Also, thanks to you for breaking open God's Word with me.  Have a comment?  Send it my way to [email protected].  Bless you!

Readings for the 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time - Isaiah 55:10-11;  Matthew 13:1-23
This weekend, we are reintroduced to a parable we've heard many times - a sower went out to sow some seed.  And in God's abundance, this seed is thrown hither and yon, recklessly, time and again.  The lavish nature of God knows no bounds.  To what end?  So that some seed may find good ground.  Maybe not today.  Maybe not tomorrow.  But someday.  Because Isaiah reminds us that which comes from God will not return to God void, but achieve the end for which it was sent.  And that's were we come in.
Special thanks to Bridget Zenk for her composition and performing of our intake and outtake music.  And thank you for breaking open God's Word with me!  Have thoughts on what you heard?  Send them my way at [email protected]  

Readings for the 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time - Zechariah 9:9-10;  Matthew 11:25-30Our world loves to be loud and showy.  Our world stands in awe of power and strength.  But our God comes not in those ways.  Our God comes in quiet and vulnerability.  Our God comes not on a steed but on the back of a donkey.  Our God sits not on the throne of power, but washes the feet of others.  It's really a simple lesson, but one we need to hear over and over because the air we breathe says otherwise.  We are invited to be little ones.  We are invited to humility.  
Special thanks to Bridget Zenk for her composition and performing of our intake and outtake music.  Thanks to you for continuing to open yourself to the Word of God.  That's what really matters.  Comment?  Question?  Shoot it my way at [email protected]

Readings for the 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time - Romans 6:3-4, 8-11;  Matthew 10:37-42
Jesus continues to prepare His followers to go out and bring the Gospel to the world.  And what does that look like?  It looks like loving God before everything else in our lives.  That includes parents.  That includes children.  It even includes ourselves.  Paul reminds us that we are dead to our own agendas and we now live for God.  But don't confuse the two.  They are not polar opposites.  It is less either/or and more both/and
Special thanks to Bridget Zenk for her composition and performing of our intake and outtake music.  Also thank you to you for journeying with me and opening yourself to the Word of God.  Have a comment or question?  I can be reached at [email protected]

Gospel for the 12th Sunday in Ordinary Time - Matthew 10:26-33
Jesus is continuing to give a pre-game, fire-up speech to the Twelve before sending them out, but his words have an ominous tone.  He speaks about fear and Gehenna and proclaiming on rooftops that which has been given to us in a whisper.  So how does this make sense to us?  What can we take from it?  It all comes down to the voices we listen to within.  
Special thanks to Bridget Zenk for her composition and performing of our intake and outtake music.  Thanks to you for listening and continuing to open yourself to the Word of God!  Have a comment?  Send it my way at [email protected]

Gospel for the 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time - Matthew 9:36-10:8
Welcome back to Ordinary Time for the first time on a Sunday since Feb. 19.  Yes, maybe it's ordinary and mundane, but it's where most of our lives are lived.  And Christ walks with us here.  So if we, as our title suggests, are the answer - what is the question?  Today our discussion revolves around the crowd and who is a part of that.  And if what Jesus says about harvest and laborers is true and that we are to ask the Maker of the Harvest to send laborers, how does that prayer get answered?
Special thanks to Bridget Zenk for her composition and performance of our intake and outtake music.  Thank you for taking time to open yourself to the Word of God!  Have a comment, question or critique?  I can be reached at [email protected]

Readings for the Solemnity of the Body & Blood of Christ - Deuteronomy 8:2-3, 14b-16a;  John 6:51-58
It's all right there in Deuteronomy: God let us be afflicted with hunger in order to feed us His very being.  Everything else leaves us wanting and wandering in a desert needing more and more.  There is only one thing that satiates that hunger - and it's what we celebrate today.
Special thanks to Bridget Zenk for her composition and performing of our intake and outtake music.  Also thanks to you for listening and opening yourself to the Word of God.  Questions?  Comments?  Send them my way at [email protected].  

Readings for the Solemnity of the Holy Trinity - Exodus 34:4b-6; 8-9; John 3:16-18
Unknowable and undefinable.  That's God's own definition of God's very self.  Yet that doesn't keep us from trying to know and define God.  And that's a fine thing.  Theologians have been doing it for millennia.  We all have.  That's how we come up with the very definition - three yet one - that we celebrate today.  But don't let past understandings or misunderstandings confine you.  God is bigger.  God is always bigger.  
Special thanks to Bridget Zenk for composing and performing our intake and outtake music.  And thanks to you for taking time to listen and open yourself to the Word and God's indescribable Self.  Questions and comments can be sent my way at [email protected]

Readings for the Feast of Pentecost - Acts 2:1-11; John 20:19-23
This weekend we celebrate not just an event that happened 2000 years ago, but an ongoing reality within our individual lives and the life of the Church.  And we will hear not only one rendition - but two: Luke's and John's.  And while both are different - different places, different scenes, different outcomes, both are true.  The Spirit can and will come into whatever place we find ourselves.  The Spirit will broach any wall we put up.  And the Spirit will drive us someplace new...if only we say yes and allow it to happen.