Tag Archive for ‘grace’
Thursday 30 October
Ephesians 6:10-20; Ps 144; Luke 13:31-35 Pray all the time The Lord gathers us, his holy people ‘as a hen gathers her brood under her wings’. We are ‘a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people set apart’. So that we may honour our vocation, we are urged to ‘pray all the time, asking for […]
Friday 10 October
Galatians 3:7-14; Ps 111; Luke 11:15-16 Filled with God Living in faith and growing in virtue is a day-by-day effort. There’s no moment in the Christian life at which we can rest on our laurels and think that we have it made. That’s part of what Jesus was warning us about when he said that […]
Tuesday 30 September
st jerome Job 3: 1-3, 11-17, 20-23; Psalm 88; Luke 9: 51-56 True Grit Our Lord knew that if he were to go to the Holy City for the Passover on this occasion he would suffer and die. Yet “he resolutely took the road for Jerusalem.” Isaiah had foretold Jesus’ attitude in the third Servant […]
Friday 29 August
Passion of John the Baptist Jeremiah 1: 17-19; Ps 71; Mark 6: 17-29 The power of God’s persuasion Jeremiah was a reluctant prophet. He wasn’t a confident speaker so God needed to convince him he could do it. He also needed to reassure him that no matter what hostility he faced, he would be with […]
Saturday 9 August
Habakkuk 1: 12 – 2:4; Ps 9; Matthew 17: 14-20 Remaining faithful Where is God when disaster strikes? Why do the wicked prosper while good men suffer? Why is God silent while evil flourishes? Habakkuk asked the same questions generations have asked throughout the ages, but his perceptions, like ours, were way off beam. The […]
Reflections on Marist Spirituality (6) – Instruments of Divine Mercy
These reflections were first published in 1212 in Tutu – Another Way, written by Adele M.E.Jones with Michael McVerry sm. They are reprinted with permission Fr Colin said: ’Marists will be completely empty of themselves so that they may be filled with graces and become in the hands of God worthy instruments of divine mercy […]
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