Tag Archive for ‘faith’
Tuesday 22 October
Ephesians 2:12-22; Psalm 85; Luke 12:35-38 Embracing the Unknown Today’s Gospel stresses the fact that we are not in charge of things – that we are servants rather than the master and that we have tasks to perform. There is an element of uncertainty in being a follower of Jesus: our future is not neatly […]
Saturday 20 October
Ephesians 1:15-23; Psalm 8; Luke 12:8-12 The Lives of Others Paul tells the Ephesians that because of what he’s heard of their faith and their love for each other, he has never failed to remember them in his prayers and to give thanks to God for them. Who are the people in our lives who […]
Friday 19 October
Ephesians 1:11-14; Psalm 33; Luke 12:1-7 What is Life-Giving For Me? There is a wonderful ‘scene-setting’ in the first sentence of today’s Gospel: a huge crowd who are clearly excited and somewhat out of control because, we’re told, “they were treading on one another”. And they’re all there to listen to Jesus. Which rather raises […]
Tuesday 16 October
Galatians 5:1-6; Psalm 119T; Luke 11:37-41 Keeping Our Options Open? Paul’s frustration with the Galatians really centres on the fact that they were looking to cover their bases – they had accepted the message of Christ but they were also adhering to the Jewish Law just in case that was actually the “right” path. Paul […]
Saturday 6 October
Job 42:1-3,5-6,12-17; Psalm 119A; Luke 10:17-24 Happy With the Gift? It’s very easy to take our faith for granted – it may literally have been a defining dimension of who we are since we were baptised soon after birth. But if familiarity doesn’t necessarily breed contempt, it can certainly breed a certain level of comfortableness […]
Saturday 11 August
Habakkuk 1:12-2:4; Psalm 9; Matthew 17:14-20 “You have little faith” The disciples had followed Jesus for a while. They knew him. They listened to him. They saw him as their leader, as the one who could save them and the world. He told them the purpose of his life was to show them how to […]
Praying with the Movies
Silence Directed by Martin Scorcese For 25 years the possibility of Martin Scorcese making his film version of Shusaku Endo’s novel Silence has been a matter of conjecture: Will he? Won’t he? Can he? Now that the film has been released, conjecture and debate continues. For some critics, it’s a major disappointment calling it slow […]
Monday 9 July
Hosea 2:16-18, 21-22; Psalm 145; Matthew 9:18-26 Courage, your faith will restore you In today's Gospel we read of an unnamed woman who is desperately in need of healing. She would be conscious that in her society she must not approach a strange man in public. In addition because of her bleeding, she is ritually […]
Sunday 1 July
THIRTEENTH WEEK ORDINARY TIME Wisdom 1:13-15, 2:23-24; Psalm 30; 2 Corinthians 8:7-9, 13-15; Mark 5:21-43 Jesus increase my faith In Mark’s Gospel we see Jesus defying the norms of his society to reach out to heal. The woman with the haemorrhage would have been considered perpetually unclean according to the laws of purity (Lev 15:25-30) but […]
Tuesday 26 June
2 Kings 19:9-11,14-21,31-36, Psalm 48, Matthew 7:6,12-14 The Journey We can be sure that if Jesus said something his followers didn’t understand, it would not have been remembered. The teachings that were remembered are basic, important and often for people in an early stage of faith. Looking back, most of us recognise the narrow gate […]
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