Tag Archive for ‘Holy Spirit’
Sunday 29 May
6th Sunday of Easter Acts 8:5-8, 14-17; Ps 66; 1Peter 3:15-18; John 14:15-21 “Have your answer ready for the hope that you have,” the Letter of Peter tells us. Where and how has your faith in Christ made a difference for you personally, been a support to you, given you a confidence you might not […]
Monday 16 May
Acts 11:1-18; Ps 42; John 10:11-18 Our first reading portrays a momentous point in the history of the Church: the revelation to admit gentiles. Peter’s first response is most telling. “Certainly not Lord.” Peter has been utterly faithful to the all-defining tradition handed down to him of Jewish separation from pagans. Now, however, the Holy […]
Monday April 25
(Anzac Day) Acts 2:14,22-33, Ps 16, Matthew 28:8-15 The Spirit enlivens us In the movie, August Rush, a composer is asked about his inspiration. “’It’s like someone’s calling out to me. Writing it all down is like I’m calling back to them.’ ‘Who?’ ‘The ones who gave me the music.’” That ‘one’ is the Holy […]
Tuesday 29th March
Daniel 3:25, 34-43; Psalm 25; Matthew 18: 21-35 Confronting evil. The king in the parable (Matthew 18) forgave his servant a mammoth debt. This servant, however, would not remit a much lesser amount owed him by another servant and had him thrown into prison. His fellow servants reported him to the king with dire results […]
Friday 25th March
The Annunciation of the Lord Isaiah 7: 10-14; Psalm 40; Hebrews 10: 4-10; Luke 1:26-38. Today I rejoice with Mary, highly favoured by God, about to be offered by God a unique role in the history of the world. Would she become the mother of Jesus, the son of the Most High God? Mary’s answer […]
Sunday 20th March
Second Sunday of Lent Genesis 12: 1-4; Psalm 33; 2 Timothy 1: 8b-10; Matthew 17; 1-9. In their presence Jesus was transfigured. A week before this Mt Tabor experience, Jesus had told Peter, James and John that he was going to be put to death. Now Jesus gives them a taste of why he would […]
Tuesday 15 March
Isaiah 55: 10-11; Psalm 34; Matthew 6: 7-15. Forgive others their failings. The mercy, the forgiveness that Jesus gave, is all over the Gospel. I remember his story about the Prodigal son, about the paralysed man who had his sins forgiven before he was miraculously healed, about the adulterous woman who washed the feet of […]
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