Irreverently Reverend

  Ordinary Time 21  Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. 22  “The eye is the lamp of the body. Therefore, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light.  23  But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how terrible that darkness will be!  24  No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be loyal to the one and have contempt for the other. You cannot serve God and wealth. 25  “Therefore, I say to you, don’t worry about your life, what you’ll eat or what you’ll drink, or about your body, what you’ll wear. Isn’t life more than food and the body more than clothes?  26  Look at the birds in the sky. They don’t sow seed or harvest grain or gather crops into barns. Yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you worth much more than they are?  27  Who among you by worrying can add a single mome...

  Ordinary Time Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through town.   2  A man there named Zacchaeus, a ruler among tax collectors, was rich.   3  He was trying to see who Jesus was, but, being a short man, he couldn’t because of the crowd.   4  So he ran ahead and climbed up a sycamore tree so he could see Jesus, who was about to pass that way.   5  When Jesus came to that spot, he looked up and said,  “Zacchaeus, come down at once. I must stay in your home today.”   6  So Zacchaeus came down at once, happy to welcome Jesus. 7  Everyone who saw this grumbled, saying, “He has gone to be the guest of a sinner.” 8  Zacchaeus stopped and said to the Lord, “Look, Lord, I give half of my possessions to the poor. And if I have cheated anyone, I repay them four times as much.” 9  Jesus said to him,  “Today, salvation has come to this household because he too is a son of Abraham.   10  The Human One...

  Ordinary Time A man came from Baal-shalishah, bringing food from the first fruits to the man of God: twenty loaves of barley and fresh ears of grain in his sack . Elisha said, “Give it to the people and let them eat.”  43  But his servant said, “How can I set this before a hundred people?” So he repeated, “Give it to the people and let them eat, for thus says the Lord, ‘They shall eat and have some left.’”  44  He set it before them, they ate, and had some left, according to the word of the Lord .   (NRSV)               Toward the beginning of lockdown last year, it seemed that everyone and their mother was making bread.   Hands up, how many of you had sourdough starter?   I didn’t get on that train but oh, how many people I knew did.   I remember my poor friend Sid grieving over having accidentally killed his sourdough starter and my friend John delighting in everyon...