Tag Archive for ‘St Paul’
Saturday 6 October
Ps.119A, Job 42:1-3, 5-6, 12-17, Luke 10:17-24 Childlike faith In my faith journey I don’t find it easy to be like a little child. My intellect wants to understand whom, where and what God is. I seek St Paul’s “… face to face …” rather than resign myself to the “… dimly as through a […]
Wednesday 19 September
1 Corinthians 12:31-13:13, Ps 33, Luke 7:31-35 God’s love for us How often have you heard this reading from Corinthians? “Love is patient and kind, it is never jealous… it is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope and to endure whatever comes.” St Paul also tells us that this love does not come […]
Friday 27 April
Acts 9:1-20 or Acts 11:19-30; Ps 117; John 6:52-59 My road to Damascus Today’s first reading outlines the conversion story of St Paul. As a disciple of Christ, what have been my ‘Road(s) to Damascus’ moments? Or again, who have been the individual Ananias’s whose words and deeds helped remove the scales on my eyes? […]
Friday 17 February
James 2: 14-26; Psalm 112; Mark 8: 34-9: 1 Not just words, Lord, deeds! I thank my God for gifting me with faith, hope and love when I was baptized. St Paul often talks about just people living by faith. And St James carries on! The just must now show they are made holy, sanctified, […]
Wednesday 8 February
1 Kings 10: 1-10; Psalm 37; Mark 7:14-23. Christ alone is our wisdom. God presented King Solomon with a magnificent wisdom gift. Each day I pray to the Holy Spirit for the wisdom that he wishes to give me so that I might be brought to full measure in Christ, my life’s work. St Paul […]
Sunday 5 February
Job 7: l-4, 6-7; Psalm 147A; 1 Cor 9:16-19,22-23; Mark 1: 29-39 I have become all things to all people. St Paul refused financial support from the Christian community in Corinth while he was living with them. He would not be accused of living off the fat of the land. He would not do anything […]
The beauty of faith and message to engaged couples
VIS 17 Sep 2011 Benedict XVI recalled how Paul had travelled to the Greek city of Philippi some twenty years after the death and resurrection of Christ, being the first time that the Gospel reached Europe. Starting from Jerusalem, the Good News “was destined to reach all men and all peoples, to transform all cultures […]
Sunday 26 June
The Body and Blood of Christ Deut.8:2-3,14-16, Ps.147B, 1Cor.10:16-17, John 6:51-58 Living Bread This is the greatest gift of all, a gift so vast that we can’t fully comprehend it, and our hearts and minds can never encompass it. No wonder Jesus’ contemporaries couldn’t understand. At times in my life I have been angry and […]
Sunday 19 June
Trinity Sunday Exodus 34:4-6,8-9, Daniel 3:52-57, 2Cor13:11-13, John 3:16-18 A God of Mercy and Compassion This Sunday is a day of prayer for refugees and migrants. The readings are full of the love and compassion God has for all people, and St Paul talks of the need to help one another and to live in […]
Sunday 12 June
Pentecost Acts 2:1-11, Ps.104, 1 Cor.12:3-7,12-13, John 20:19-23 Come Holy Spirit St Paul tells us that the spirit works in all sorts of different ways in different people. Sometimes it is easy to recognize the working of the Spirit, sometimes it is more difficult. The Spirit’s gifts are all necessary to build God’s kingdom but […]
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