Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C

Meditation – 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C
Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18
Philemon 1-21
Luke 14:25-33

One does not think of the apostle Paul as being very personally involved with those he taught or of having much of a sense of humour, but both are demonstrated in his letter to Philemon. It is a plea to Philemon - a fellow-believer from Colosse – to receive his runaway slave and accept him back as a Christian brother. The letter is addressed not only to Philemon, but also to Apphia, to Archippus and to the local house-church, perhaps to ensure there would be witnesses to what he had to say...

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