• Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time/A
    Massimo Palombella In today’s Gospel (Mt 20:1–16), Jesus, wishing once again to describe the “kingdom of heaven”, tells the parable of the labourers in the vineyard. The Greek word for
  • Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time/A
    Massimo Palombella In today’s Gospel (Mt 18:21–35), when Peter asks how many times one must forgive, Jesus replies: ‘not seven times, but seventy-seven times’: ἕως ἑβδομηκοντάκις ἑπτά (héōs hebdomēkontákis heptá).
  • Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time/A
    Massimo Palombella In today’s Gospel (Mt 18:15–20), Jesus sets out with great clarity the nature of our relationship with, and responsibility towards, our brothers and sisters. It is worth noticing
  • Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time/A
    Massimo Palombella In today’s Gospel (Mt 16:21–27), Jesus rebukes Peter for his way of thinking. Peter does not “think according to God”: his vision of the world, his habitual choices,
  • Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time/A
    Massimo Palombella In today’s Gospel (Mt 16:13–20), Jesus puts an essential question to his disciples: ‘But who do you say that I am?’ The Greek text places particular emphasis precisely
  • Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time/A
    Massimo Palombella In today’s Gospel (Mt 15:21–28), we are told the story of the Canaanite woman who turns to Jesus for help on behalf of her sick daughter. Two aspects