Sunday Reflections
Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
The image of God as shepherd recurs throughout the Old and New Testaments. Psalm 23 is a perfect example of the care God gives to his people: leading them to rich pastures, nourishing, guiding and…
Corpus Christi
St John devotes chapter six of his gospel to Christ’s teaching on the Eucharist. He had fed five thousand people from the loaves and fishes that the little boy had been prepared to share. The…
The Most Holy Trinity
God has been revealing himself to humanity from earliest times. In the first reading, he appeared to Moses in the form of a cloud, a symbol of divine presence repeated through the Old and New…
Pentecost Sunday
Jesus said Nicodemus: “The wind blows where it chooses” (John 3:8). This would be an excellent description of the coming of the Holy Spirit. On Pentecost Sunday he came as a powerful wind, the…
The Ascension of the Lord
The Ascension of the Lord forms the hinge between the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles. The Gospel recounts the life of Jesus on earth, while Acts is an account of the early church.…
Sixth Sunday of Easter
Jesus knew that his life on earth was over. He felt joy that he was returning to the Father but sorrowful that he was leaving his friends, with whom he had shared so much in his short time with…
Fifth Sunday of Easter
There are so many voices clamouring to influence and lead these days; but often they only lead back to themselves. There is only one way and that is Jesus Christ. John the Evangelist’s purpose in…
Fourth Sunday of Easter
The image of the Lord as shepherd occurs in the Old Testament as well as the New. Psalm 23 describes the care of the shepherd for his sheep. He guides them, nourishes them, soothes them and…
Third Sunday of Easter
Luke was probably a Greek gentile and, as he says himself, he would not have known Jesus in his lifetime (Luke 1:2). The account of the journey to Emmaus was an excellent way of explaining God’s…
Second Sunday of Easter
We should be very grateful to St Thomas, as John shows us in his gospel how the disciple demanded physical proof that Jesus had risen from the dead. He was invited by the Lord to touch his wounds…