Sunday Reflections
Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Women will have great sympathy for Martha, for they know well what effort goes into entertaining an important guest. Jesus grew up in a loving family and he seems to have become part of the family…
Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
In the gospels the Samaritans are generally depicted very favourably. The leper who came back to thank Jesus was a Samaritan (Luke 1:11-19) and the Samaritan woman at the well, in in chapter 4 of…
Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Isaiah 66:10-14 is taken from Third Isaiah, written when the Jews had returned home after their exile in Babylon. God works in all sorts of unexpected ways, as he did when he inspired the Persian…
Ss Peter & Paul, apostles
The feast of SS Peter and Paul gives us some very valuable lessons. Peter and Paul were the bedrock of the infant church, yet they were people with weaknesses - just like the rest of us. In fact…
Ss Peter & Paul, Apostles
Corpus Christi
The mysterious King of Salem (possibly Jerusalem), Melchizedek, as king and priest prefigures Christ, who offers himself forever in the bread and wine of the Eucharist. Melchizedek blessed Abraham…
The Most Holy Trinity
“Trinity is a mystery, not a puzzle. Love is mystery, a crossword is a puzzle. You try to solve a puzzle - you stand before the mystery." (Justo Gonzalez)
There have been so many scientific…
Pentecost Sunday
The feast of Pentecost was so named as it occurred fifty days after the Passover. It was a pilgrimage feast, when many Jews came from their homes to the temple. It was an agricultural feast,…
The Ascension of the Lord
Jesus had made his real farewell to his disciples at the Last Supper, as recorded in the discourses of St John (John 13:31, 14-17). When Jesus left them after forty days, they were not full of…
Sixth Sunday of Easter
It is easy to forget that, in the early church, its members were all Jews and they still attended the temple as their place of worship. At the beginning they probably didn’t expect the…