Tag Archive for ‘prayer’
Saturday 17 November
St Elizabeth of Hungary 3 John 5-8; Ps 112; Luke 18:1-8 Keep going Prayer for the ‘long haul’ can be a real challenge. We are asked to take heart and persevere in our prayer. From a position of helplessness, where one feels one is truly stuck, persistence triumphs. The widow overcomes the unjust judge; how […]
Sunday 11 November
Thirty Second Week Ordinary Time 1 Kings 17:10-16; Ps 146; Hebrews 9:24-28; Mark 12:38-44 The generous heart The widow gave two of the smallest coins in circulation, but they are a profound symbol of her sacrifice of support for the Temple and her inner dedication and generosity. This is in contrast to the hypocrisy of […]
Wednesday 7 November
Philippians 2:12-18; Ps 27; Luke 14:25-33 Running on empty? Today in the Gospel we see Jesus outline the conditions for discipleship. This discipleship comes from God and asks of the disciple a ‘full hearted’ response to the call. The challenge for the disciple is to be full hearted in prayer and in day-to-day living. It […]
Wednesday 31 October
Ephesians 6:1-9; Psalm 145; Luke 13:22-30 Staying Alive Often the ‘narrow door’ that Jesus refers to is ourselves – or in other words, we can be the biggest obstacle in our own lives! We can become casual and unfocussed in our faith (“we once drank ate and drank in your company”) but perhaps we’ve become […]
Friday 26 October
Ephesians 4:1-6; Psalm 24; Luke 12:54-59 Discerning the Right Way It can be easy – perhaps too easy – to avoid responsibility for our decisions and actions by saying that we just rely on what the law (or its equivalent) tells us. True discernment – rather than simply pleasing ourselves – allows us to ‘interpret […]
Monday 15 October
ST TERESA OF avila Galatians 4:22-24,26-27,31-5:1; Psalm 113; Luke 11:29-32 Hearing and Responding The story of the life of St Teresa of Avila is that of a woman who entered the Carmelites and, over the course of years, came to understand through prayer and reflection that God was calling her to an ever-closer relationship and […]
Thursday 11 October
Galatians 3:1-5; Canticle Luke 2:29-32; Luke 11:5-13 Always Ready to Respond Most of us would perhaps be very reluctant to disturb any of our friends in the middle of the night, unless it was a matter of extreme necessity. Certainly, needing to offer hospitality to a visitor probably wouldn’t qualify as grounds for disturbing another […]
A School for Prayer (15) – Lectio Divina
Subiaco – St Benedict Chartreuse – Guigo the Carthusian By Fr Craig Larkin SM, 1943 – 2015 FROM EAST TO WEST John Cassian Our study of the experience of prayer has kept us in the Eastern part of the Christian world: the Desert regions of Egypt, Palestine, Sinai and Syria. There were hermits living in […]
Saturday 29 September
Sts Michael, Gabriel & Raphael, Archangels Daniel 7:9-10 13-14; or Apocalypse 12:7-12; Psalm 138; John 1:47-51 Looking with love In Catholic tradition St. Michael is revered as the protector of the Church. Gabriel communicates important messages. His greeting to Mary lives on, repeated daily in the, “Hail Mary!” It is Gabriel who brings the gift […]
School for Prayer (13) Evagrius of Pontus (5) – The human person in Christ
By Fr Craig Larkin sm, 1943 – 2015 Putting it Together According to Evagrius’ teaching, the human person, with its strengths and struggles, can be illustrated like this: How the Logismoi operate The Fathers, following Evagrius, outline a number of ‘stages’ in the struggle with the logismoi. 1. Provocation – the logismos simply appears. 2. […]
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