Tag Archive for ‘miracle’
Saturday 2 April
Acts 4:13-21; Ps 118; Mark 16:9-15 Living without prejudice In the first reading, the rulers, elders and scribes are trying to find a way to protect their position and status. They recognise that a miracle has been worked through Peter and John but they don’t want to acknowledge it because the two disciples don’t fit […]
Tuesday 8 March
Ezekiel 47:1-9, 12, Ps 46, John 5:1-3, 5-16 Unbounded love Here, in this desert of Lent is another delightful vision of the life-giving goodness of flowing water. As I allow the goodness of Jesus Christ to flow through me, the miracle and power of love, which can touch and heal others, grows in my very […]
Monday 7 March
Isaiah 65:17-21, Ps 30, John 4:43-54 The miracle of personhood Isaiah’s vision sounds like heaven. Jesus says that my faith is strengthened when I move from seeing miracles as earthly signs that heaven exists, to absorbing the miracle and the Person who performs it into my life. To do this requires a vision that is […]
Wednesday 6 January
1 John 4:11-18; Ps 72; Mark 6:45-52 Closed minds Our Lord’s closest companions did not understand ‘what the miracle of the loaves meant,’ so the Lord’s walking on the water was beyond them too. Maybe our minds are as closed as theirs were. We have some inkling that ‘God is love’ and that God lives […]
Monday 16 November
Ps119P; 1Maccabees 1:10-15,41-43,54-57,62-64; Luke 18:35-43 Trust in God The blind man called out to Jesus. People tried to quieten him but he called louder. Jesus asked that the man be brought to him. The man asked that he might see. Immediately he saw. What a lovely episode in Christs’ life. The man possibly only knew […]
Tuesday 27 October
Romans 8:18-25, Ps 126, Luke 13:18-21 The reign of God Jesus compares God’s action in the world to a man planting a mustard seed, and to a woman putting yeast into some flour. Both parables show how gradual is the growth of God’s action in our hearts and in the world. God’s action is not […]
Sunday 26 July
Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time 2 Kings 4:42-44, Psalm 145, Ephesians 4:1-6, John 6:1-15 God of abundance The miracle of the feeding of the crowd begins with a young boy’s willingness to surrender his lunch of five barley loaves and two fishes. We remember that when God calls us to do something that involves some […]
Friday 31 October
Philippians 1:1-11; Ps 111; Luke 14:1-6 The wonders God does We are unlikely to witness the kind of miracle cure recorded in today’s Gospel. Yet we need to have our eyes open to the wonders God does in our daily lives – the miracle of ongoing life itself, for example, should prompt a prayer of […]
Monday 13 October
Galatians 4:22-24, 26-27, 31-5:1; Ps 113; Luke 11:29-32 Doubt and faith ‘Miracles, if produced on demand, can sabotage the faith they were meant to strengthen. For the truly faithful, no miracle is necessary; for those who must doubt, no miracle is sufficient’ [Nancy Gibbs]. We praise and thank God who has ‘raised the lowly from […]
Tuesday 16 September
Sts cornelius & cyprian 1 Cor 12: 12-14, 27-31; Psalm 100; Luke 7:11-17 Wanted … miracle workers When Jesus raised that dead man to life it had a deep positive effect on those who witnessed the miracle and it also had a ripple effect. “This opinion of him spread throughout Judaea and all over the […]
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