God's magnanimity and all-inclusive love are themes of today's readings.

God has shown us love. We show ourselves worthy of this call by loving God, others, and the world.

God is the one who makes us worthy for the calling; it is divine power that brings to fulfillment every effort of faith. The mission of the church doesn’t depend entirely on you and me, and that alone is cause for rejoicing.

In the eyes of Jesus' followers, for Jesus to find value in a tax collector was similar to a farmer prizing a black sheep.

Redemption is a matter of the heart. Zacchaeus' heart was in the right place.

The woman's healing and reconciliation was complete. For the first time in a long time, she felt perfect joy.

Read today's gospel and replace Zacchaeus with a name that would scandalize you if you saw it associated with Jesus.

Our God spares all things, forgives all things. We ask God for that forgiveness.

God chooses another tactic: to presume that everything made is worth loving, seeking, and saving.

Some people do not like to hear much of repentance; but I think it is so necessary that if I should die in the pulpit, I would desire to die preaching repentance, and if out of the pulpit I would desire to die practicing it.