Tag Archive for ‘faith’
Tuesday 13 May
Acts: 11:19-26, PS 87, John 10:22-30 Our Lady of Fatima 1917 and the world was in the grip of despair and suffering and a war that killed millions. 3 rural Portugese children looking after their sheep responded with child like faith and excitement. Mary at Fatima:”Will you offer yourselves to God, and bear all the […]
Society of Mary Challenge 2000 Gap Year
In February, eight Gap students embarked upon the 6th Marist Challenge Gap Year offered by the Society of Mary and Challenge 2000. The gap year is a full time 11 month programme for young Catholics that focuses on personal development, spiritual growth, self-awareness, awareness of others and how to live as a young person of […]
Wednesday 30 April
St Pius V Acts 5:17-26, Ps 34, John 3:16-21 Living by the truth At the very foundation of our life of faith are the truths that Jesus speaks of in today’s gospel. God sent his son Jesus into the world. Through his death on the cross, the world was to be saved. No one who […]
Sunday 27 April
2nd Sunday of Easter Acts 2:42-47, Ps 118, 1 Peter 1:3-9, John 20:19-31 When seeing is believing We believe that Jesus rose from the dead not because we have seen evidence but because we have faith. Thomas was unable to join the disciples in their celebration of the resurrection because he needed to see the […]
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 […]
Sunday 20 April
Easter Sunday Acts 10:34, 37-43, Ps 118, Col 3:1-4, John 20:1-9 Beyond belief Nothing can prepare us for Easter. Easter is about believing the impossible, celebrating the miraculous and embracing the mysterious. Resurrection from the dead is beyond our imagining let alone our comprehending. Even Jesus’ own disciples failed to understand what the Scriptures had […]
Tuesday 8 April
Numbers 21:4-9, Ps 102, John 8:21-30 Jesus sent by the Father Central to Jesus’ message and mission was that he came from the Father and would return to the Father. What he taught, what he declared to the world was what he brought from the Father, the Good News of God’s love for us and […]
Thursday 27 March
Jeremiah 7:23-28, Ps 95, Luke 11:14-23 Living with Jesus Are you for Jesus or against him? Being for him means believing in him and working with him to build his house. It means freeing ourselves from the demons of sin, the “snares of the devil” who would have us for his own. Being for him […]
Monday 24 March
2 Kings 5:1-15, Ps 42, Luke 4:24-30 Come, listen, live! A problem God encounters from time to time is that our lack of faith gets in the way of his work. By blocking our ears to him, we are losing out. Our sins cannot be healed, our souls are lonely. Miracles through the intervention of […]
Wednesday 19 March
ST JOSEPH, HUSBAND OF MARY 1 Samuel 7:4-5, 12-14, 16, Romans 4:13, 16-18, 22, Ps 89, Matthew 1:16, 18-21, 24 or Luke 2:41-51 Faith What great faith St Joseph must have needed to protect his wife and foster son from the circumstances and danger surrounding Jesus’ birth. Joseph could have refused to involve himself but […]
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