Sunday Reflections
Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
“My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord; my spirit rejoices in God, my Saviour.” (Magnificat)
Mary was deeply conscious of her gratitude to God. It was a characteristic of the Jewish…
Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Elijah was one of the most important prophets for the Jews and it was he that appeared with Moses at the Transfiguration of Our Lord. In today’s reading he had given up hope, having been…
Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
We do not know what the manna that sustained the Israelites in the desert really was. It could have been produced by some sort of insect or might have been a type of lichen. The important…
Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
St John, the dramatist, presents the teaching on the Eucharist in three main scenes. The first is the feeding of the five thousand. Imagine the little boy timidly approaching Andrew and offering…
Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
The disciples were excited after their experience of preaching,healing and casting out demons. They naturally wanted to tell Jesus all about their experience. He knew that they needed a quiet…
Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Amos was the first Jewish prophet to have a book of the bible called after him. He lived in the eighth century BC and his writing is admired for its purity of language. As he told Azariah, he did…
Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
People generally see what they want to see. God chose to become human in every way except for sin. He also decided to be reared in a village that was considered a bit of a backwater. “Nazareth!…
Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Sometimes people faced with pain or tragedy think that their suffering is somehow God’s will. Both the first reading and the gospel contradict this attitude. Jesus willingly underwent suffering…
Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time
We are reminded in today’s liturgy of the power of God, in the reading from the Book of Job, which is the story of a good man who has endured numerous tragedies and who wonders where God is when…
Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
“Do not disturb. I’m disturbed enough already” (notice on Spike Milligan’s door, quoted by the late bishop of Galway, Martin Drennan).
The leaders of the society where Jesus lived, like…