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The Ordering of Love and the Awful Story of Abraham and Isaac

February 28, 2021

Friends, if the intention of an author is to convince people to read and think about what he’s written, the author of Sunday’s first reading has done his job well. We hear the deeply troubling story of Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his own son, Isaac. How do we reconcile God’s love with his asking Abraham to kill his own son? How should we take the fact that Abraham was willing to follow through with it? And what does this mean for how we must order our own lives?

Mass Readings

Reading 1 – Genesis 22:1-18
Psalm – Psalm 116:10-19
Reading 2 – Romans 8:31-34
Gospel – Mark 9:2-10