A sweet memory of Jerusalem in the 1980s: I am a graduate student at the French Dominican center for biblical and archeological studies – the École Biblique. For a school year, I am living just a couple of blocks away from the sites where events of Holy Week in today’s Gospel took place.
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.