Tag Archive for ‘belief’
Wednesday 10 December
Isaiah 40:25-31, Psalm 103, Matt. 11:28-30 God’s greatness Who made the stars and calls each by name? The whole earth and all in it? Our God, so powerful, so strong, so much vigour, so loving. As we pray to him, year in and year out, we perhaps become too familiar. We forget his immensity of […]
Thursday 24 April
Acts 3:11-26, Ps 8, Luke 24:35-48 It is true That Jesus rose from the dead is the core belief of the Christian life. Faith is a gift of God. We believe in the resurrection only because we have that gift. The disciples who stood dumbfounded when Jesus came among them and showed them his risen […]
Wednesday 23 April
Acts 3:1-10, Ps 105, Luke 24:13-35 Being transformed Our faith is not about belief in a body of teachings but it is about belief in a person, the person of Jesus. It was in his name that Peter and John healed the cripple at the Beautiful Gate, as told in today’s reading from the Acts […]
Tuesday 1 April
Ezekiel 47:1-9,12, Ps 46, John 5:1-3,5-16 Lord, help my unbelief In today’s gospel, Jesus asks the man who has been ill for thirty eight years “Do you really want to be well again?” It seems that being ill has become his way of life. Perhaps he has become comfortable with life as a patient and […]
Friday 13 December
Saint Lucy, Martyr Is 48:17-19, Ps 1:1-4, 6, Matthew 11:16-19 A question for today’s generation “What comparison can I find for this generation?” This could well be a question Jesus addresses to our modern Western generation, increasingly ignorant of, indifferent or even hostile to, its Christian heritage, Christian belief and values. Surely God must now […]
Wednesday 3 July
St. Thomas, Apostle Ephesians 2: 19-22, Ps. 117, John 20: 24-29 Doubt and believe Every time we receive Holy Communion we put our fingers in the nail holes and our hands into the side of Jesus. We touch his risen body just as surely as Thomas did. Do I believe this? Perhaps I do in […]
Yes, I Believe
It was Divine Mercy Sunday when three things joined together in my mind. Two babies were being Christened at the beginning of Mass, and we all joined in affirming our faith…. “I believe in the resurrection of the body and life everlasting”…. How could our material bodies last forever? My doubting mind wondered. Then came […]
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