• Ordinary Time: 7th Sunday

    7th Sunday of Ordinary Time – Cycle B (2000)

    You may have noticed that the most controversial ad on the Super Bowl this year wasn’t, as everyone was expecting, some incredibly gross ad from an internet company. The ad that shocked everybody was one involving a sort of miracle. The actor Christopher Reeve appeared in an ad where, through the miracles that they can work with computer graphics, they made it appear that he could stand up from the wheelchair in which he has been almost completely paralyzed for the past ten years. Some people thought it was creepy, partly, I think, because the ad was for a stockbroker, but also because they knew it wasn’t true, and couldn’t…