Stretch out your hand

2nd Week in Ordinary Time   Stretch out your hand.    Instead of avoiding the religious leaders’ scrutiny, Jesus pushed forward.   He invited the man with the disability to join him in the front of the synagogue and asked his detractors a pointed question: ...

Stretch out your hand

Stretch out your hand.  Critics play an important role in the music world.   They help the public to evaluate what is good, and by doing so, they set standards for music.   But critics can also be closed to anything new or different.   For example, one of Bach’s...