What began with a sense of elation, awe, and wonder ended in acrimony. They had feasted on free bread, made miraculously abundant, to their heart’s content. So much so that they tried to crown Jesus as their king by force. When he eluded their grasp, they sought him out and found him in the town of Capernaum, on the far…
A parishioner who had listened to my “hard-boiled eggs” sermon last Sunday asked me whether I would continue the theme today and say something about the scotch egg. I evaded giving a straightforward answer. Firstly, to pique their interest so they would come to Mass. Secondly, I have never had a scotch egg. I googled it, and it looks like…
When I was a child, travelling was an entirely different experience from what it is today. Fewer cars meant more people on trains, buses, and coaches – they were often overcrowded. Even relatively short journeys by today’s standards took ages due to the combination of winding roads (no motorways) or old railway tracks and unreliable rolling stock and coaches. There were…
World hunger could have been well and truly sorted out, had Jesus repeatedly been pulling the same trick we heard about last Sunday: feeding the crowd by miraculously multiplying the meagre resources at his disposal. Unfortunately, it happened only once, as reported by all four gospels; Matthew and Luke reported another event of this kind, but it might well have…