Tag Archive for ‘life’
Friday 17 April
Acts 5:34-42; Ps 27; John 6:1-15 They had their fill The feeding of the crowd from John’s Gospel shows us how much Jesus cares for the people. He is concerned for their welfare, the food is ample, generous, and overflowing. He speaks the words of life and then ensures that their other needs are catered […]
Sunday 12 April
2nd SUNDAY OF EASTER Acts 4:32-35; Ps 118; 1 John 5:1-6; John 20:19-31 My Lord and my God Thomas’ statement at the end of today’s Gospel comes out of his experience of seeing Jesus and from a sense of regret for not believing before. Jesus was patient with him and indulged his desire to see […]
Monday 6 April
Acts 2:14,22-23; Ps 16; Matthew 28:8-15 Set us free Jesus tells the two Marys not to be afraid but to go and tell the disciples what has happened. You can imagine why they might be afraid, wondering what all this is going to mean for them, trying to put human reasons on what has happened. […]
Saturday 4 April
HOLY SATURDAY Romans 6:3-11, Ps 118, Mark 16:1-8 God’s generosity to us Our readings for today come from the Easter vigil. There are many to choose from. We hear of the history of God’s generosity to his people, from the creation of the world, through the Exodus, the sending of prophets and finally the ultimate […]
Friday 3 April
GOOD FRIDAY Isaiah 52:13-53:12; Ps 31; Hebrews 4:14-16,5:7-9, John 18:1-19:42 My servant shall justify many How can we ever comprehend the love of Jesus for us that saw him sacrifice his life for our sins? The horror of his suffering, the injustice of it, seems so unfair. Yet in love he gave his life so […]
Thursday 2 April
HOLY THURSDAY Exodus 12:1-8,11-14; Ps 116; 1 Corinthians 11:23-26; John 13:1-15 A model to follow Today we celebrate the gift of the Eucharist as seen in the Last Supper. Jesus breaks the bread and shares the cup which becomes his body and blood, the heart of our sacramental life. But the Gospel reminds us that […]
Guilt Free, At Last
“ What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge on it.” – Charles Dudley Warren, 1829-1900. American essayist, friend of Mark Twain. – My Summer in a Garden, 1871. My husband and I grew up in the Bronx, a northern borough of New York City. In our Kingsbridge section of […]
Monday of Holy Week. 30th March
Isaiah 42:1-7, Ps. 27, John 12:1-11 What does loving Jesus cost me? Spikenard, which is worth almost a year’s wages is a symbol on Pope Francis’ crest. Mary humbly lavishes the perfume on Jesus’s feet spreading fragrance everywhere. Catholic devotional life is meant to be explosive, in a sense subversive and countercultural, spreading the fragrance […]
Sunday 22nd March
5th Sunday of Lent Jeremiah 31:31-34, Ps. 51, Hebrew 5:7-9, John 12:20-33. The seed transformed. A seed seems insignificant and vulnerable, able to be blown by the wind. Fearfully we seek to protect our vulnerability. Yet Jesus calls for surrender. When a seed falls something miraculous happens; new life emerges from death. The seed is […]
Wednesday 18th March
St Cyril of Jerusalem Isaiah 49:8-15, Ps. 145, John 5:17-30 Jesus reveals the heart of the Father Isaiah gives perhaps the most tender prophecy in Scripture; “Does a mother forget her baby… even if these forget I will never forget you.” Jesus reveals the heart of the Father “who is the source of life” and […]
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