Tag Archive for ‘faith’
Sunday 23 April
Second Sunday of EasterDivine Mercy Sunday Acts 2:42-47; Psalm 118; 1 Peter 1:3-9; John 20:19-31 My Lord and my God Thomas’ wonderful act of faith is the statement to which the whole of St John’s Gospel is directed. He is our Lord and God too, and we are numbered among those described as ‘happy’ because […]
Wednesday 19 April
Acts 3:1-10; Psalm 105; Luke 24:13-35 Foolish people Our Lord called Cleopas and his friend foolish, for they were slow to believe that the only way that Christ could enter into his glory was by way of the cross. Perhaps we are not slow to believe, yet fall short of living our faith in such […]
Sunday 9 April
Passion (Palm) Sunday Isaiah 50:4-7; Psalm 22; Philippians 2:6-11; Matthew 26:14-27:66 My God, my God … The heart-wrenching cry of Jesus on the cross, ‘My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?’ is echoed down the centuries in the voices of those who suffer. In our own time, in the Holy Land, in Syria, […]
Monday 27 March
Isaiah 65:17-21; Psalm 30; John 4:43-54 Receiving and sharing the gift of faith The royal official sought Jesus in his desperate need. He experienced Christ’s power and his love. He then shared that experience with ‘all his household,’ and they all became ‘believers.’ Such is the personal conversion and evangelisation process, the process through which […]
Wednesday 22 March
Deuteronomy 4:1, 5-9; Psalm 147B; Matthew 5:17-19 Pass it on ‘But take care as you value your lives! Do not forget the things which you yourselves have seen…. teach them rather to your children and to your children’s children’ (Deuteronomy 4:9). God’s words to the Israelites are equally addressed to Christian parents and grandparents today. […]
Sunday 19 March
Third Sunday in Lent Exodus 17:3-7; Psalm 95; Romans 5:1-2, 5-8; John 4:5-42 The spring within There is one metaphor which has always symbolised for me the abiding presence of Christ in my life. Jesus, ‘a spring of water within, welling up to eternal life.’ Whatever my circumstances, however far I may have strayed on […]
Sunday 12 March
SECOND SUNDAY IN LENT Genesis 12:1-4; Psalm 33; 2 Timothy 1:8-10; Matthew 17: 1-9 God with us Only a select few are privileged to have direct sensory communication with God (e.g., Peter, James and John in today’s Gospel). We ordinary folk must rely on faith and discernment. But not to worry; God does communicate with […]
Wednesday 8 March
Jonah 3:1-10; Psalm 51; Luke 11:29-32 Our true selves Today’s Psalm 51 might reawaken in us a sense of our sinfulness and of our need for God’s redemptive grace. In our self-appraisal do we see ourselves as the good guys, keeping the Commandments, keeping the faith, and therefore anticipating that we are ‘earning’ our heavenly […]
Friday 17 February
Genesis 11:1-9; Psalm 33; Mark 8:34-9:1 Saved by love The life of faith presents us with many challenges. The people of Babel were defeated in their plan to build their own secure way to reach heaven. Jesus declares to his disciples that anyone who wants to save his life will lose it. He teaches that […]
Wednesday 15 February
Genesis 8:6-13, 20-22; Psalm 116B; Mark 8:22-26 Taking the lead Is there someone who needs your help? The blind man in today’s Gospel needed his friends to bring him to Jesus. He could not do that by himself. He needed his friends to lead him and guide him. He also needed the support of their […]
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