Episode 141: The Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A

Send us Fan Mail “O woman, great is your faith.” That single sentence from Jesus in today’s Gospel is among the most surprising, hopeful, and challenging lines in all of Scripture. It is surprising because Jesus says it to someone who, by every social and religious measure of His time, should have been ignored. It is hopeful because it reveals that God’s heart is moved not by status, ethnicity, or background, but by faith. And it is challenging because it forces us to confront the boundaries ...