Tag Archive for ‘Jesus’
Sunday 8 July
FOURTEENTH WEEK ORDINARY TIME SEA SUNDAY Ezekiel 2:2-5; Psalm 123; 2 Corinthians 12:7-10; Mark 6:1-6 What do you want of me Jesus? When Jesus returned to his home town and preached in the synagogue the locals, recognising him as a local lad, Mary's son, had difficulty accepting him. Who did he think he was? Are […]
Friday 6 July
Amos 8:4-6, 9-12; Psalm 119A; Matthew 9:9-13 What I want is mercy As we listen to the laments of the prophet Amos that the needy were being swindled and trampled on and that the poor were being bought up for money, we may hear echoes of happenings in our own society. Consequently we may shiver […]
Thursday 5 July
Amos 7:10-17; Psalm 19B; Matthew 9:1-8 I come to do your will O God In our first reading, Amos, in response to the order of the priest of Bethel to return to his farming, is able to claim that it is God who has sent him to prophesy. Similarly, in our Gospel reading, Jesus claims […]
Wednesday 4 July
Amos 5:14-15, 21-24; Psalm 50; Matthew 8:28-34 Thy will be done When we pray, we often have the outcome we would like, and even the means of obtaining it, all mapped out in our minds. In the challenging Gospel of today we read of an unexpected response from the innocent men tending the pigs when […]
Tuesday 3 July
St Thomas, Apostle Ephesians 2:19-22; Psalm 117; John 20:24-29 My Lord and my God While we rejoice in accepting Paul’s description of us as members of the household of God built upon the foundations of the apostles and prophets, there may be times when we experience a stronger affinity with Thomas the doubter. Amid the […]
Monday 2 July
Amos 2:6-10, 13-16; Psalm 50; Matthew 8:18-22 Jesus invites us to “follow me” Today we listen to the words of Amos who described himself to be merely a herdsman and a grower of sycamore figs. However God called him to be his prophet. Amos deplored the moral and social decline of the Israelite people which […]
July Crossword
Solution for June Across: 1 Cram, 3 Chaplain, 9 Oratory, 10 Error, 11 Exercise book, 14 Esq, 16 Least, 17 Eke, 18 Barbiturates, 21 Arena, 22 Aramaic, 23 Passed by, 24 Apse. Down: 1 Closeted, 2 Agape, 4 Hay, 5 Presbyterian, 6 Aureole, 7 Norm, 8 Concelebrate, 12 Shalt, 13 Versicle, 15 Quakers, 19 […]
Sunday 1 July
THIRTEENTH WEEK ORDINARY TIME Wisdom 1:13-15, 2:23-24; Psalm 30; 2 Corinthians 8:7-9, 13-15; Mark 5:21-43 Jesus increase my faith In Mark’s Gospel we see Jesus defying the norms of his society to reach out to heal. The woman with the haemorrhage would have been considered perpetually unclean according to the laws of purity (Lev 15:25-30) but […]
Saturday 30 June
Lamentations 2:2,10-14,18-19, Psalm 74, Matthew 8:5-17 At the feet of Jesus The reflections this month have stayed with Jesus, and we, like Mary sister of Martha, have sat at his feet, a term used when a disciple was learning from a master. Because every disciple is different, your reflections may have been different from mine. […]
Friday 29 June
Sts Peter and Paul Acts 12:1-11. Psalm 34, 2 Timothy 4:6-8,17-18, Matthew 16:13-19 The pillars of the Church Peter and Paul were flawed characters who both denied Jesus. It was the effect of these denials that brought them to a state of emptiness. Suddenly it seemed they were filled with God. Or was it sudden? […]
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