January 16, 2021
Editor’s note: This reflection was originally posted to Fr. Mark-David’s Facebook page.
The famous Irish Dominican Scripture scholar, Wilfrid Harrington, was asked:
“After fifty years of studying, praying and living the Gospels, would you tell us in a single sentence what has impacted you the most in those texts?”
“The scene in which Jesus invites a tax collector and a prostitute to his feast––without demanding they change.”
from: Tears of an Innocent God: Conversations on Silence, Kindness and Prayer, by Trappist Brother Elias Marechal of Mepkin Abbey.
If you are looking for digestible spiritual book with surprises for your soul, try this out in these dreary winter months. Every year I return to it.
Paulist Fr. Mark David Janus is president of Paulist Press.