The Narrow Door
21th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Lk13:22-30)
When you were in school, did you prefer easy-going teachers to demanding ones? I have been in formal education for 24 years and I generally preferred the demanding teachers, because most often I found the easy-going ones not only shallow but very “stingy” with marks to maintain the class average because they wanted to please all students!
In the gospel reading of today, Luke presents Jesus as a demanding teacher. This portrayal of Jesus is very unlike Luke. For instance, Matthew uses the phrase “grinding of teeth” (NJB), or in other translations, “gnash their teeth” (RSV), five times in his Gospel, whereas Luke uses it only once. And that happens to be in the gospel text of today. Being consistent within the Gospel of Luke, what is the central orientation of the Word of […]
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My current weekdays job: Postgraduate Programmes Coordinator at the Institute of Youth Ministry, Tangaza College, Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Naiorbi.
We run evening classes at the Holy Family Basilica, Nairobi.
We also offer a Master of Education degree in Guidance and Counselling.
