Reflections on life, meaning and purpose

This Sunday, a Wise Woman Begs Jesus for Scraps. Will We?

There is a huge mismatch between the Canaanite woman who approaches Jesus Christ and the Apostles in the Gospel for the 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A — and St. Paul reminds us that we should feel the full force of it today when we each approach Jesus Christ. The important clues are all there at the very beginning of the Gospel story — in the “who, what, where, when, why?” Matthew does a great job at news reporting with this story. Right away, he answers the Five Ws of journalism: