Tag Archive for ‘Israel’
Saturday 23 July
Fourviere Day (Marist family) Exodus 24:3-8, Ps 50, Matt 13:24-30 On 23 July 1816, 12 seminarians climbed the 800 steps to Notre Dame de Fourviere in Lyon to place their Marist project under the protection of Mary. Like the people of Israel placing their offerings on the altar, they put their promise and their names […]
Saturday 16 July
Exodus 12:37-42, Ps 136, Matt 12;14-21. No time for dallying The Exodus of the people of Israel is much more than one event among many for them – it was the greatest moment in their history, and made them a new people. It is the equivalent to the Resurrection for Christians.
Tuesday 12 July
Exodus 2;1-15, Ps.69, Matt 11:20-24 She called him Moses The story of Moses is full of luck, lies, fear, and violence. Yet he was being prepared by God to do a wonderful thing, to save the people of Israel no less. A couple in a coastal town in NZ were both marijuana growers and users; […]
The Gospel of Matthew – (Part 3)
Matthew brackets the material in chapters 5-9 with two nearly identical verses. “Jesus went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and curing every disease and every sickness among the people” (4:23). “Then Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and proclaiming […]
Friday 1 July
Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Deut 7:6-11 ,Ps103, 1 John 4:7-16, Matt 11:25-30 God set his heart on you This feast captures in an image the centre of the Incarnation – God’s love in the humanity of Jesus. As God set his heart on Israel and chose her out of all the peoples […]
The Gospel of Matthew (Part 2)
In chapters 1 and 2, with the action of Mary’s conception of Jesus by the power of the Holy Spirit, God himself began the plot of Matthew’s Gospel. God kept Mary a virgin despite conception so that it would be clear who Jesus is – none other than God’s Son. In the ensuing chapters, Matthew […]
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