Tag Archive for ‘holiness’
Saturday 7 May
Acts 18:23-28, Ps 47, John 16:23-28 Here you are All we have is gift. Our challenges, our faith, our whanau and our life. All that we have been, are and will be. Like Paul each one of us is chosen as we are, where we are. If we can look in the mirror and accept […]
Wednesday 23 March
Wednesday in Holy Week Isaiah 50:4-9, Ps 69, Matthew 26:14-25 I stumble like Judas The prophet makes it clear to me that as a disciple of Jesus Christ I am a person whose feelings and senses are assaulted as Calvary looms. Suffering with Jesus Christ is so much more than having a long-distance, empathetic vision […]
Wednesday 9 March
Isaiah 49:8-15, Ps 145, John 5:17-30 The hard option The actions I see Jesus doing are actions I must allow him to do in me. My willingness to be saved from my sinfulness means putting myself before Jesus to be judged. That means opening up the deepest part of my soul for Jesus to touch. […]
Midnight
: Is 9:1-7 calls me to risk stepping out of the morbidity of darkness and into the vitality of the light, to see what God has done. Titus 2:11-14 calls me to give up everything that does not lead to God. Lk 2:1-14 a call to overcome my fear, the major driving force of modern […]
Monday 30 November
St Andrew, Apostle Ps 19 1-4; Rom 10:9-18; Mt 4:18-22 The first of the apostles Jesus calls Peter and Andrew to join him in his mission. He chose men with few pretensions to be his apostles. These men had Jesus as their role model on the spot. As Jesus said to Thomas – “Blessed are […]
Married, Saintly Life
A couple of things have come to my attention lately which I think are connected. The first is the forthcoming canonisation of the parents of St. Therese of Lisieux, the first married couple to receive this official Church blessing. The other is a statement from our Catholic Bishops which says that our schools are producing […]
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