This gospel has a very distinctive echo in our times. We live in an era of exaggerated emphasis on an externalized identity - as people in society, as citizens in countries, as males and females and son. Today’s gospel emphasises that our identities followers of Jesus is much more mysterious and subtle and something we have to search carefully and patiently to discover.

About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.

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