Tag Archive for ‘Genesis’
Thursday 9 February
Genesis 2:18- 25, Psalm 128: 1-5, Mark 7: 24-30 Let’s learn a lesson Here is Jesus trying to escape from people but this woman susses him out. She has a need but not for herself. The Lord tries to put her off but wittily she turns his derogatory comment to her favour. Jesus sets her […]
Wednesday 8 February
Genesis 2: 4b-9, 15-17, Psalm 104, Mark 7:14-23 Testing, testing, testing God tested Adam’s love for him by forbidding him to eat the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. He tested the Israelites during their wandering in the desert. He tests our faith and our love for him by the […]
Monday 6 February
Paul Miki and Companions, Martyrs Genesis 1: 1-19, Psalm 104, Mark 6: 53-56 Witness A martyr is a witness. But people witness to Jesus not only by dying for him, as Paul Miki and his companions did. When the Lord healed the Gadarene demoniac he told him to go and share his healing with others. […]
Saturday 17th December
Genesis 49:2,8-10; Psalm 72,1-4,7-8,17; Matthew 1:1-17. Jesus’ family tree The family tree of Jesus shows God is quite able to write his plan of salvation using different people and circumstances, and not so perfectly ordered as the perfect Jewish number 7 and 14 suggests! There are special mothers Tamara, Rahab, Ruth, Uriah’s wife and Mary […]
Thursday 8th December
The Immaculate Conception of Mary Genesis 3:9-15,20; Psalm 98:1-4; Ephesians 1:3-6, 11-12; Luke 1:26-38 Saying Yes after prayer The Gospel zooms from heaven, into our universe, into a town of Galilee, to a young girl, Mary. We enter the drama of God wanting to find a way for humanity to “conceive and bear a son” […]
Sunday July 24
Seventeenth Week in ordinary time Genesis 18: 20-32; Psalm 138: 1-8; Colossians 2: 12-14; Luke 11: 1-13 Prayer of petition Abraham and Jesus both teach us wonderful things about prayer! Both make it clear that persevering prayer touches the heart of God. Jesus begins his prayer by addressing God as Father […]
Sunday 17 July
Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time Genesis 18: 1-10; Psalm 15: 2-5; Colossians 1: 24-28; Luke 10: 38-42 The better part It is easy for us to sympathise with Martha, slaving away to prepare a good meal for their guest. Jesus’ words praising Mary for her attention to his words seem a little unfair. What do […]
Sunday 19 June
The Body and Blood of Christ Genesis 14:18-20; Psalm 110: 1-4; 1 Corinthians 11:23-26; Luke 9:11-17 Source and Summit In the 1960’s all the Bishops gathered in the Second Vatican Council, explicitly taught all the People of God that the Eucharist – the Body and Blood of Christ – was the source and summit of […]
Thursday 7 April
St JOHN BAPTIST de la SALLE (M) Genesis 17:3-9, Psalm 105; John 8:51-59 “I am with you, always.” In the Covenant or Promise that God made with Abraham, God said he would be with Abraham always, regardless of the failures of Abraham and his people. Jesus is a part of that promise – a real […]
Friday 18 March
Psalm 105; Genesis 37:3-4, 12-13, 17-28; Matthew 21:33-43, 45-46 God, gentle and masterful The Genesis and Matthew readings are linked. In Genesis, the story of Joseph, being given away by his jealous brothers, is an early foreshadowing of Christ being rejected. Despite everything, God still achieves his plan – through Joseph saving his people from […]
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