In today's passage from the letter to the Romans, we see St. Paul speaking openly about the struggle going on within him - the struggle between living gospel values and living the easier, more carefree life that so often leads to fishing. He knows what the right thing to do is and yet he struggles. In this, any of us could replace Paul's name with our own. The Gospel message is not always easy to live but with the help and grace of God, who is always at our side, it is entirely possible.

In today's Gospel passage from Saint Luke, we see Jesus warning the people not to be able to read the signs of the times. They can make many other predictions about what they see and yet they cannot read the most obvious things in front of them, like the presence of the Messiah. We still have the Messiah among us and yet we also fail to read the signs of the times and follow him in all sincerity.

*Fr Georges sac