Tag Archive for ‘Holy Spirit’
Monday 6 May
Acts 16:11-15, Ps 149, John 15:26-16:4 Come, Holy Spirit! The presence and action of the Holy Spirit shows us exactly what we need to do, and will support us when (not if) we are put to the test. Thank you Holy Spirit for your guidance and support – in my times of joy when I […]
Sunday 5 May
Acts 15:1-2,22-29 Apocalypse 21:10-14,22-23 Ps 67, John: 14:23-29 Be not Afraid There is great comfort to be found in today’s Gospel, as Jesus tells us not to let “our hearts be troubled or afraid”. Even though he knew, when he said these words, that he would be leaving the world for the meantime, he left […]
Feelings
We’re told that love of God is not so much a matter of feelings but a continuing act of will. Feelings in your relationship with God are the icing on the cake. That may be true, but I want to have my cake with icing on it. It takes a lot of willpower to love […]
Monday 29 April
St Peter Chanel Acts 13:44-52, Ps 96, John 15:12-17 The Advocate Jesus promised the Holy Spirit, and he came to them at Pentecost. That same Holy Spirit told Paul that the cripple had enough faith to be cured, and enabled Paul to cure him. Yet Paul found it difficult to convince the crowd that he […]
Saturday 27 April
Acts 13:44-52, Ps 98, John 14:7-14 Father and Son Jesus never made it any clearer than he did here: he and the father were one. But a consequence is that anyone who believes in him will be able to perform even greater works, because he is now gone up to be with his father. Peter […]
Monday 22 April
Acts 11:1-18, Ps 42, John 10:1-10 Right of entry The readings today show that anyone God has called can enter the kingdom. Most of our ancestors must have been gentiles or pagans, yet at some time gone by they accepted the Lord, just as the pagans Peter visited in Caesarea did. Peter hardly had to […]
Monday 8 April
Annunciation of the Lord Isaiah 7:10-14, 8:10, Ps 40, Hebrews 10:4-10, Luke 1:26-38 Obedience God chose the time and place and person to fulfil his promise of a saviour. But put yourself in the mind of the simple country girl faced with an angel telling you impossible things. Mary proved she was the right person […]
Friday 5 April
Acts 4:1-12, Ps 118, John 21:1-14 What’s in a name? Peter and John were arrested because they were doing what Jesus had told them to do. Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, turned the tables on them by using the healed cripple as evidence. He said it was done in the name of Jesus, the […]
Wednesday 19 December
Judges 13:2-7.24-25, Ps 71, Luke 1:5-25 The births of Samson and John the Baptist Today the births of these two men are announced by angels. Both were consecrated to God. Samson receiving great strength from God, protected his people from the Philistines. John the Baptist, full of the Holy Spirit and being the first prophet […]
Saturday, 24 November
ST ANDREW DUC-LANG Psalm 144, Apocalypse 11: 4-12, Luke 20: 27-40 Oneupmanship This story, although following a classic rabbinical sequence, shows how the narrow views of the Sadducees led them to a crude notion of bodily resurrection. Sensing victory over Jesus, they are gobsmacked to hear him denounce their misreading of Scripture. They are not […]
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