Tag Archive for ‘Mary’
Perfectly Less Than Ideal
Sometimes mothers give birth in less than ideal conditions, such as in a car on the side of the road, unable to reach the hospital in time. I don’t think Mary planned on giving birth in a stable at Bethlehem either. But these things happen. Still, what was God thinking? He organised visitors, a star […]
Southern Pilgrimage
CDC 2014 Participate in The Marist Experience By James Peppping As part of their curriculum, each year the students at the Catholic Discipleship College make a northern and southern pilgrimage to places of significance to the Catholic Church in Aotearoa. These explorations of our church history are also opportunities for our students to make connections […]
Mary for Today – Journey Towards Birth
Reading: Luke 2:1-5. Victims of Bureaucracy: Having reflected on both the Annunciation and Visitation, it is time to move towards Bethlehem. In her Magnificat Mary speaks of God’s kingdom overthrowing that of the rich and powerful: He has brought down the powerful from their thrones, and lifted up the lowly (Lk 1:52). Now the powers […]
Tuesday 7 October
OUR LADY OF THE ROSARY Acts 1:12-14; Magnificat [Luke 1:46-55]; Luke 1:26-38 The Lord is with us As the Lord was with Mary, the Lord is with us to the extent that we are open to him. Each and every one of us is ‘highly favoured’, chosen by God and loved by God since before […]
Mary for Today: Mary Gives Birth to Jesus
Readings: Luke 2:6-19; Matthew 2:1-2, 9-11. A Real Birth: Birth, the word opens up a world of meaning; a woman in childbirth is on the threshold of life and death. Her body struggles to bring the future into being, but her pain and exhaustion consume her to the point where she experiences a dying as […]
Mary for Today: The Annunciation – A Call to Vocation
It is easy to imagine Mary as a young woman, soon to be married to Joseph, dreaming of a loving marriage, a family, a home in the village among the people she knew. There, she would lead a quiet life far from the gaze of the Roman occupation, protected from the bustle of the city […]
Friday 22 August
Queenship of Mary Ezekiel 37: 1-14; Ps 106; Matthew 22: 34-40 Inextricably linked No ambiguity here. First and foremost we must love God with our entire being. The Pharisee didn’t ask Jesus what the second commandment was but he told him anyway: You must love your neighbour as yourself. To Jesus the two commandments were […]
The Greening Of The Mangrove
My Mother used to say the best part of holiday is looking forward to it! There is truth in that. The same might be said of my expectation of meeting up with the mangrove tree I had befriended while on retreat in Australia.1 When I arrived at the beach at the Mary MacKillop Centre […]
Saturday 26 July
Sts Joachim and Anne, Parents of Mary Ecclesiasticus 44:1, 10-15; Ps 132; Matthew 13:16-17 Grandparents feast day Joachim and Anne, parents of Mary, grandparents of Jesus. We know little about them. This feast day should remind us of how important grandparents are. Some raise their grandchildren. Some care for them several days each week. Some […]
Mary for the Third Millennium:(8) – The Joy of the Gospel
And in Conclusion…: When Pope Francis came to the conclusion of his 2013 apostolic exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium, he turned to Mary as mother of evangelisation. In her presence with the disciples in the upper room (Acts 1:14), praying for the coming of the Holy Spirit, the pope sees the beginning of the great mission to […]
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