Tag Archive for ‘faith’
Sunday 10 February
FIFTH sunday in ordinary time Isaiah 6:1-8, Ps.138, 1 Corinthians 15:1-11, Luke 5:1-11 Here I am Lord, send me Isaiah, St. Paul and St. Peter were all certain of one thing, their own weakness and unworthiness. In spite of this they were prepared to step out in faith and allow God to use them. It […]
What drives your faith?
From ancient times to the present day most religious worship throughout the world is based on fear… terror of a wrathful deity who demands sacrifice to appease him. In the Old Testament times the widespread worship of Baal required that parents sacrifice their first-born child to gain his favour. The Old Testament turned around this […]
Thursday 31 January
St John Bosco, Priest Hebrews 10: 19-25; Ps 24: 1-6; Mark 4: 21-25 Nothing kept secret We are called to be ‘sincere in heart and filled with faith’; ‘free from any trace of bad conscience’. Oscar Wilde wrote: ‘I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character and that, therefore, […]
Tuesday 22 January
Hebrews 6:10-20; Ps 111: 1-2.4-5.9.10c; Mark 2: 23-28 An anchor for our soul God’s promise to Abraham, our father in faith, has been renewed in Christ’s sacrifice, for all people of all time. Today’s Psalm assures us that the Lord is not only compassion and love, but he ‘keeps his covenant ever in mind’. This […]
Friday 18 January
Hebrews 4:1-5.11; Ps 78:3.4bc.6c-8; Mark 2:1-12 Your sins are forgiven Those who saw the paralysed man cured ‘had never seen anything like this’. The paralytic’s healing was a demonstration of Jesus’ authority to forgive sins. The Lord sees our faith and forgives us if we ask him to do so. We take comfort in the […]
Saturday 12 January
1 John 5:14-21;Ps 149:1-5.6a.9b; John 3:22-30 He must grow greater John the Baptist is a fine model for living our faith. As we grow in faith, hope and love we become more like Christ and our ego grows smaller. The goodness of our lives helps people to know God, for ‘we are in the true […]
Friday 4 January
ST Elizabeth Ann Seton, Religious 1 John 3:7-10; Ps 98:1.7-8.9; John 1:35-42 We have found the Messiah Like John and Andrew we have been given the gift of faith in Christ as God. Our faith in him prompts us to ‘live a holy life’. We are called to ‘be holy just as God is holy’. […]
Thursday 3 January
1 John 2:29-3:6; Ps 98:1.3cd-6; John 1: 29-34 We shall see him as he really is The Father has poured out his love for us ‘by letting us be called God’s children,’ and with John the Baptist we recognise Jesus as the Chosen One of God. The Lord’s promise is that eventually we shall see […]
Thursday 20 December
Isaiah 7:10-14, Ps 24, Luke 1:26-38 Yes “…for our salvation he came down from heaven: and by the power of the Holy Spirit was incarnate of the Virgin Mary, and became man.” With these words the Church, in the Nicene Creed, regularly professes its faith and celebrates God becoming human through the Virgin Mary. We […]
Monday 17 December
Genesis 49:2, 8-10, Ps 72, Matthew 1:1-17 The family tree It is very common these days for families to trace their family tree. For Maori it is just part of life to know your whakapapa. The family tree, whakapapa, of Jews was important too. In today’s Gospel we have a record of the ancestors of […]
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