Tag Archive for ‘life’
Sunday 20 January
SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Isaiah 62:1-5; Psalm 95 (96):1-3, 7-10; 1 Corinthians 12:4-11; John 2:1-11 Transformation It is Calvary that sheds a wonderful light on the Cana story. Mary is present. Jesus takes something ordinary (water- human life) and makes a transformation (wine – salvation). He takes what we have and who we are […]
Thursday 17 January
ST ANTHONY Hebrews 3:7-14; Psalm 94 (95) 6-11; Mark 1:40-45 Being radical Martyrdom was petering out and Christian life was becoming more mainstream. Anthony of Egypt leads the way in a radical surrender to God and a remarkable living out of the Gospel. He was a pioneer of what we now call religious life. Often […]
Monday 7 January
1 John 3:22-4:6; Psalm 2:7-8, 10-11; Matthew 4:12-17, 23-25 Love To love one another is a daily challenge. Sometimes people seem to be so difficult to love. Sometimes love is the very last thing that appeals to us. But God’s love is constant, persevering and generous and when we love as God loves there is […]
Sunday 30 December
The holy family 1 Samuel 1:20-22, 24-28; Psalm 83 (84):2-3, 5-6, 9-10; 1 John 3:1-2, 21-24; Luke 2:41-52 Mary’s song Mary’s reference to ‘generation after generation’ and the promise ‘made to our ancestors, to Abraham and his descendants’ includes the land. She walks on the land promised to her ancestors. Her pregnant body is sustained […]
Tuesday 25 December
Christmas Day Mass During the Day Isaiah 52:7-10; Psalm 97 (98):1-6; Hebrews 1:1-6; John 1:1-18 Inserted in God’s cosmic story Jesus is not only a new-born human baby. The prologue (John 1:1-18) inserts him into God’s never ending, interconnected cosmic story in ways that recall both biblical and ancient cosmologies. ‘In the beginning’ evokes the […]
Sunday 16 December
Third Sunday of Advent Zephaniah 3:14-18; Isaiah 12:2-6; Philippians 4:4-7; Luke 3:10-18 What should we do? John the Baptist gives hand-on, down-to-earth advice to three groups – the crowds, the tax collectors and the soldiers – when they ask him, ‘What should we do?’ A central concern of Luke lies beneath this question: nothing so […]
Friday 14 December
Isaiah 48:17-19; Psalm 1:1-4, 6; Matthew 11:16-19 Discern God’s way In the Old Testament, ‘this generation’ sums up those who are faithless and perverse. The marketplace suggests the city and the centre of public life. Compared with John’s ascetic behaviour, Jesus seems normal, yet, he too is rejected by powerful elites. Matthew identifies Jesus as […]
Thursday 6 December
Isaiah 26:1-6; Psalm 117 (118):1, 8-9, 19-21, 25-27; Matthew 7:21, 24-27 Foundation in God Jesus, the teacher, for most of his life, was a carpenter. Most likely, he worked as a day-labourer building houses in the variable climate of Galilee. The parable of the two builders ends the Sermon on the Mount (Matt 5-7) in […]
Saturday 24 November
St Andrew Dung-Lac Apocalypse 11:4-12; Ps 144: Luke 20:27-40 God of the living When it comes to death one really knows more about living than dying. So take heart in that reality because the very God of the living is the God who gives and sustains life beyond the grave. In the face of death […]
Friday 23 November
Apocalypse 10:8-11; Ps 119P; Luke 19:45-48 Praying or plotting? Do we place enough importance on our prayer life? Just taking the time to pray can be quite simple to do, but difficult to keep up. It becomes a question of how much energy we put into our prayer in comparison with the energies we use […]
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