Tag Archive for ‘Israel’
Friday 1 March
Psalm 105, Genesis 37:3-28, Matthew 21:33-46 A call to remember Psalm 105 is a great narrative hymn. The psalmist tells of the wonderful acts of God. He tells how God made a covenant with Abraham and confirmed it with Isaac and Jacob. It was a covenant to provide the people of Israel with the land […]
Friday, 23 November
Psalm 119, Apocalypse 10:8-11, Luke 19: 45-48 Missed opportunities Jesus shows his love for Jerusalem by offering its inhabitants protection and safety if they heed his warnings. But, like the children of Israel before them, they either could not, or would not, seek peace. So it is with us. He directs and warns us in […]
Thursday 12 July
Hosea 11:1-4,8-9, Ps.80, Matthew 10:7-15 Israel, how could I give you up? Do we, can we, ever realise and believe just how much, how tenderly God loves each one of us? Probably we never can, but sometimes it is good to just sit and soak up that love and that tenderness, and today’s first reading […]
Saturday 30 June
Lamentations 2: 2, 10-14, 18-19; Ps 74; Matthew 8: 5-17 Be Humble The centurion’s faith and Jesus’s response to it is a wonderful example of his all encompassing desire to reconcile everyone to God, no matter who they are. May I learn humility from the centurion, who despite his superior position as a leader in […]
Monday 28 November
Isaiah 2: 1-5, Ps. 122, Matthew 8: 5-11 From east and west Immediately before this miracle, Matthew reports the healing of a leper. Straight afterwards, he records the healing of Peter’s mother-in-law. The three miracles show Jesus healing those excluded from full membership of the people of Israel. Visiting a Gentile household would have made […]
Thursday 24 November
Daniel 6: 12-28, Canticle Daniel 3:68-74Luke 21: 20-28 Law or conscience? In Daniel, we have a sixth century BC celebrity. When his rivals are unable to find a place to attack his public life, they seek to find a vulnerable spot in his private life. They fix on his firm commitment to prayer to the […]
Wednesday 23 November
Daniel 3: 4-6, Canticle Daniel 3:62-67, Luke 21: 12-19 God there in bad times King Belshazzar’s abuse of the sacred vessels looted from the temple in Jerusalem as cups for his feast mocked the God from whose temple they had been taken. He assumed that defeating a people discredited its God. Through the Babylonian exile, […]
October Crossword
The winner of the August Crossword was Betty Fitzmaurice of Parnell, who received a Marist Messenger pen for her efforts. Solution for September Across: 1 Ambulatory, 8 Perhaps, 9 Pasha, 10 Overt, 11 Endears, 12 Assisi, 14 Oculus, 18 Overdue, 20 Stall, 22 Isaac, 23 Apostle, 24 Magnificat. Down: 1 Amphora, 2 Borne, 3 […]
Mission Sunday Message and Solomon’s Message
From“ Mission Sunday” 2011 Message The beneficiaries of the Gospel proclamation are all peoples. The Church “is missionary by her very nature, since it is from the mission of the Son and the mission of the Holy Spirit that she draws her origin, in accordance with the decree of God the Father” (Vat 2 Decr. […]
Sunday 31 July
18th Sunday Ordinary Time Isaiah 55:1-3, Ps:145, Romans 8:35,37-39, Matt 14:13-21 Give them something to eat yourselves Matthew’s gospel has two multiplications of loaves, and the differences are highly symbolic. This first event seems to be stress the Palestinian west side of the lake, and the number 12 echoing the tribes of Israel and the […]
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