Tag Archive for ‘good’
Thursday 10 September
Colossians 3:12-17; Ps.150; Luke 6:27-38 Above all, love. Today’s readings offer a collection of virtues and sayings about how to live a good life. These can be gathered up into Paul’s statement: above all, put on love. Sit quietly with your hands open in your lap. Pray for the grace to grow in love and […]
Monday 31 August
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18; Ps. 96; Luke 4:16-30 Love God Slavery isn’t a word we’d associate with ourselves. Yet we are enslaved sometimes, because of the insidious nature of sin. Jesus’s presence and action in our lives releases us from that tyranny and its result: eternal death, with a counter-offer of eternal life. Why then must […]
Saturday 29 August
PASSION OF JOHN THE BAPTIST Jeremiah 1:17-19; Ps. 71; Mark 6:17-29 Choose God’s way It’s a common enough scenario: we find ourselves in situations where it would be very easy to pander to the wrong people about the wrong sorts of things. These can be petty – maybe indulging in a moment’s spiteful commentary – […]
Monday 24 August
St Bartholomew, Apostle Apocalypse 21:9-14; Ps. 145; John 1: 45-51 Share the love One of our responsibilities, having encountered Jesus, is to tell other people about him. We need to find ways to reveal him to them in ways they will understand or they will wonder if anything good can come out of listening to […]
Thursday 20 August
ST BERNARD, ABBOT (D) Judges 11:29-39; Ps. 40; Matthew 22:1-14 With every fibre of my being In telling the disciples the parable of the king whose invitations were spurned, Jesus shows although it is up to us to choose to accept or decline his Father’s invitations (and there will be more than one), we lose […]
Friday 7 August
Deuteronomy 4:32-40; Ps 77; Matthew 16: 24-28 Give up your life to save it Just as we make sacrifices to satisfy our special goals – maybe homeownership, a holiday, a good exam result, a family event, Jesus points out we need to make sacrifices to gain eternal life. We need to pay attention to our […]
Thursday 6 August
THE TRANSFIGURATION OF THE LORD Daniel 7:9-10,13-14; Ps 97; Peter 1:16-19; Luke 9:28-36 Become transfigured In a homily Bishop Anastasius of Sinai said “Jesus goes before us to show us the way, both up the mountain and into heaven, and — I speak boldly — it is for us now to follow him with all […]
Wednesday 29 July
St Martha Exodus 34:29-35, Psalm 99, Matthew 13:44-46 The treasure in the field We can look at this parable in a new way. We are fields, ordinary fields with a few stones and weeds, some fertile areas, subject to seasonal change. That is the nature of a field. But we all have a sacred treasure […]
Friday 10 July
Genesis 46:1-7,28-30, Psalm 37, Matthew 10:16-23 Wise as serpents, gentle as doves When Jesus sent out the twelve, he used four images that aptly described their mission. They would be sheep among wolves. Sheep were considered innocent, and they were sacrificial animals. In the Middle East, snakes were the symbols of wisdom and healing – […]
Thursday 2 July
Genesis 22: 1-19, Psalm 115, Matthew 9: 1-8 The voices of love and fear When we follow Jesus in the gospels, we see an emerging pattern: his acts of healing get two reactions from the crowd – rejoicing and criticism. Once, I would have judged these reactions as “good” and “evil”. But Jesus, spoke truth […]
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