Tag Archive for ‘goodness’
Monday 12 December
Numbers 24:2-7, 15-17; Psalm 25; Matthew 21:23-27 Teach me Lord ‘Make me to know your ways, O Lord; teach me your paths. According to your steadfast love remember me, for the sake of your goodness, O Lord!’ I often pray this psalm asking for God’s guidance. God honours our desire to be wholehearted and to […]
Sunday 11 December
Third Sunday of Advent Isaiah 35:1-6, 10; Psalm 146; James 5:7-10; Matthew 11:2-11 Good News We are so familiar with these words of the Gospel: ‘the blind see, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear. The dead are raised to life and the Good News is proclaimed to the poor.’ Do we […]
Friday 4 November
St Charles Borromeo Philippians 3:17-4:1; Ps 122; Luke 16:1-8 Two different ways of living Both readings focus on dishonesty. Even the master in the Gospel was dishonest when he accepted the dishonesty of his steward. I think Jesus was saying that if only his disciples were as keen and ingenious in their attempts to attain […]
Wednesday 12 October
Galatians 5:18-25, Ps.1, Luke 11:42-46 The gifts of the Spirit For men, sin is usually about offence against personal integrity. For women, sin is more likely to be an offence against relationships. What we both share equally are the gifts of the spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, trustfulness, gentleness and self control. Paul […]
Tuesday 13 September
St John Chrysostom 1 Corinthians 12:12-14, 27-31, Ps 100, Luke 7:11-17 A culture born from above This Gospel sets out three actions of Christ and three marks of the Church: Christ resurrects the widow’s son – the community of disciples believes in the resurrection of the body and the goodness of bodily life. Christ gives […]
Saturday 27 August
St Monica 1 Corinthians 1:26-31; Ps 33; Matthew 25:14-30 Wisdom, virtue, holiness, freedom The call of each of us to faith is due to the merciful goodness of God, not the works that anyone may do. We become part of the Mystical Body of Christ – “made members of Christ Jesus” – and have the […]
Thursday 25 August
1 Corinthians 1:1-9; Ps 145; Matthew 24:42-51 Stay awake Paul will often greet his readers with the salutation of “grace and peace”: God’s free gift of divine life and one of the results of that gift. In serving God and our neighbour we are able to spread grace and peace – and we learn that […]
Saturday 18 June
2 Chronicles 24:17-25; Ps. 89; Matthew 6:24-34 Choose life, choose abundance The evil plot to kill Zechariah backfires. The king and his advisers will be destroyed because of the evil they had planned against Zechariah. They will be killed either by an invading army or by the assassin’s hand. Evil, in the end, turns against […]
Friday 1 April
Easter Octave Acts 4:1-12; Ps 118; John 21:1-14 Everyday Jesus Sometimes Jesus speaks to us in dramatic events like the huge haul of fish in the Gospel reading. More often, though, he touches us in the ordinary everyday events of our lives (‘the sharing of breakfast’). The challenge we face is to be open to […]
On Mercy, Mission, Forgiveness and the American Circus
Mercy and Mission Day by day we enter into the life of this Holy Year of Mercy. With His grace, the Lord guides our steps as we cross the Holy Door and comes towards us so as to stay always with us, despite our shortcomings and our contradictions. Let us never tire of asking His […]
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