The readings at this time of year cover Jesus' miracles and teaching. This is where we meet the Jesus of the every day, the Jesus of farmers and fisherman, who told stories of lost sheep, a man beaten up by the roadside, a ponsy landowner, fishers of men, treasure buried in a field, seed sown by the wayside, or, as in today's gospel, where the Jesus of the every day is seen as a threat to King Herod, and we are reminded how callously the King has responded to threats in the past from those who dared to speak the truth to power. Our God is a God of the people, not in far off Jerusalem, but walking every day through the fields, and along the shores, of Galilee.

Picture above of words from the doors of the Basilica of La Sagrada Familia, Barcelona