Tag Archive for ‘kindness’
Sunday 29 October
30TH WEEK ORDINARY TIME Exodus 22:20-26; Psalm 18;1 Thessalonians 1: 5-10; Matthew 22:34-40 Kindness Jesus reminds us that our love for God and for one another is all that matters. A love that is expressed in our care and kindness. Unlike others, Jesus seems totally motivated for others in each moment of his life. The […]
Friday 27 October
Romans 7:18-25; Psalm 119H; Luke 12: 54-59 Reach deeply One of the prayers we are to treasure is our simple pause before eating as we pray grace. All is gift, including the food we can share. Sometimes we eat on the run and forget to pause and then fail to recall the giftedness of it […]
Sunday 19 June
Twelfth Sunday of Ordinary Time Zechariah 12:10-11, 13:1; Ps. 63; Galatians 3:26-29; Luke 9:18-24 Love and the cross Zechariah prophesied that God will pour out his spirit of kindness and prayer, but then goes on to speak about one who is pierced, mourned as for the loss of an only child. Christ is the kindness […]
Tuesday 7 June
1 Kings 17:7-16; Ps. 4; Matthew 5:13-16 Salt, light and life The kindness of the widow and her son towards Elijah is rewarded. They will not go hungry despite the famine ravaging the land. God’s gift of life to us is Christ – a gift of eternal abundance not famine. This life is the salt […]
Kindness
Of a good nature, considerate and helpful. Dictionary.com When a seemingly random chance event brings about a good outcome I wonder how much the wind of the Holy Spirit blows to make such a kind thing occur. When I grew up we liked to talk about these coincidences. It felt like we were being looked […]
Saturday 20 February
Deutoronomy 26:16-19, Ps.119A, Matthew 5:43-48 Loving “Love your enemies” is easy to say, but far from easy to do. Loving and being kind to our own whanau comes easily and naturally. Likewise kindness to friends isn’t too hard. Kindness to strangers comes a little harder but we all try, some with heroic achievement, others more […]
Monday 15 February
Lev.19:1-2,11-18, Ps.19B, Matthew 25:31-46 The Last Judgement I don’t score high on the list of good deeds in the “Last Judgement” parable. I am comforted however (I hope) by the notion that these are simply examples of some of the ways that people of that time could help those in need. The parable’s message is, […]
Tuesday 29 September
Archangels Michael, Gabriel and Raphael Daniel 7:9-10, 13-14; Ps.138; John 1:47-51 You will see the angels In May this year, a 13 year old student at Sacred Heart College, New Plymouth, died of cancer. Her name was Gabrielle Devine. She initiated an action called “Starlit Hope” in which participants were asked to do a random […]
Friday 19 June
2 Corinthians 11:18,21-30, Ps 34, Matthew 6:19-23 True riches What are these treasures in heaven that Jesus today asks us to store up? We know we can’t take anything with us when we die. Maybe they are the gold of kindness, the diamonds of compassion, the rubies of friendship and the pearls of joyfulness. It […]
Saturday 7th March
Sts Perpetua and Felicity Micah 7:14-15,18-20, Ps. 103, Luke 15:1-3,11-32 Do we long for and embrace those outside our comfort zones? I once heard a father tell his teenager that the porch light would always be on. Have you ever pleaded with God, found prayer become onerous, church boring, God forgotten, or maybe someone hurts […]
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