3 August 2024 -- Saturday of the 17th week ‘B
Jer 26:11-16. 24; Matt 14, 1-12
Homily
This Gospel presents us with two men who are very different from each other. The first, John the Baptist, is a free man, without power or ambition, and therefore also without fear. The other is a man with a great deal of power in his hands, enslaved by his calculations and ambitions, and because of that constantly torn by fear.