Tag Archive for ‘good’
Saturday 5 March
Hosea 5:15-6:6, Ps 51, Luke 18:9-14 Dealing with pride Pride hardens my heart and hinders my growth in virtue. The prophet speaks of knowledge of God. Jesus Christ teaches that true love of God has something to do with knowing my pride and bringing it before God. The love of the tax collector is humble […]
Monday 15 February
Lev.19:1-2,11-18, Ps.19B, Matthew 25:31-46 The Last Judgement I don’t score high on the list of good deeds in the “Last Judgement” parable. I am comforted however (I hope) by the notion that these are simply examples of some of the ways that people of that time could help those in need. The parable’s message is, […]
Friday 12 February
Isaiah 58:1-9, Ps.51; Matthew 9:14-15 Fasting Fasting, as with other forms of self-denial, is good for both body and soul. As an expression of repentance for our sins, it is part of the Christian Lenten tradition. But as Isaiah reminds us today, fasting only has value if it is a catalyst for loving deeds. In […]
Friday 5 February
St Agatha Ecclesiasticus 47:2-11, Ps.18, Mark 6:14-29 The Question The story of John the Baptist’s murder raises the frequently asked question: why does God allow bad things happen to good people and why does he allow evil to so often triumph over good? I wonder whether God’s answer may be another question: “Why do you […]
Friday 29 January
2 Samuel 11:1-10, 13-17; Ps 51; Mark 4:26-34 Be merciful, O Lord We stand in need of God’s mercy as David did. Despite our sinfulness and our capacity for doing evil, God’s kingdom grows, in God’s way and in God’s good time, in a similar way to that in which the fields produce a harvest […]
Thursday 28 January
St Thomas Aquinas (pictured at right)) 2 Samuel 7:18-19, 24-29; Ps 132; Mark 4:21-25 Nothing hidden Our lives reflect God’s light, always, if sometimes less brightly than we might hope. It is sin that dims God’s light in us and makes us less generous in the ‘amount we measure out’ in self-giving for the good […]
Tuesday 26 January
St Timothy & St Titus, Bishops 2 Timothy 1:1-8 (or Titus 1:1-5); Ps 96; Luke 10:1-9 Relying on the power of God God has ‘saved us and called us to be holy’, so we are to live our lives in such a way that we give witness to the kingdom of God, ‘which is very […]
Sunday 24 January
THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Nehemiah 8:2-6, 8-10; Ps 19; 1 Corinthians 12:12-30; Luke 1:1-4, 4:14-21 Good news to the poor We are Christ’s body, each of us a different part with a special function. Each of us in our own way, instructed and guided by God’s law, baptised and anointed ‘in the one Spirit,’ […]
Sunday 10 January
THE BAPTISM OF THE LORD Isaiah 40:1-5, 9-11; Ps 104; Titus 2:11-14, 3:4-7; Luke 3:15-16, 21-22 My favour rests on you As Jesus is beloved of the Father, so are we loved. We were chosen before time began to be baptised ‘with the Holy Spirit and fire’ to give witness to God’s love and to […]
Friday 8 January
1 John 5:5-13; Ps 147; Luke 5:12-16 Be cured! ‘God has given us eternal life … in his Son,’ and God’s Son offers us healing just as he offered to cure the man with leprosy. It can be good to think of the areas of our lives that need the Lord’s healing, whether they be […]
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