Sister Eloise Rosenblatt

If you go on pilgrimage “In the Footsteps of Jesus” to Israel, one event you can expect is the day the tour guide takes you onto the Sea of Galilee – actually a lake of fresh water.

The Gospels, like teachers, often propose a contrast – wise and foolish virgins, publican and Pharisee, weeds and wheat, hidden and revealed, light and dark, truth and falsehood, spirit and flesh, sinful and forgiven, blind and seeing, lame and walking, mute and speaking, confused and understanding, first and last.