Soul Food for the Fourth Sunday of Lent, 10th March 2024
As we celebrate this Fourth Sunday of Lent, journeying with young people and the entire school community, the Lenten season can be experienced in a different perspective for our own spiritual growth. Through our baptism, we are called to participate in the mission of Our Lord Jesus for the salvation of each one of us and of the entire world.
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- February 26, 2024Soul Food for The Third Sunday of Lent, 3rd March 2024
Once Jesus had risen from the dead, the disciples had the job of spreading the message. In today’s Second Reading, St Paul makes it clear how difficult that was. The disciples faced huge scepticism. Their audiences were mostly Jews and gentiles. How do you persuade them that, not only did Jesus rise from the dead but that He was God’s son sent to redeem them?
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-The Seven Last Words – Easter 2022
This Holy Week the whole world finds itself engulfed in a crisis that has broken over us just as we thought that we were emerging from a pandemic. Our hope was that Covid might have taught us lessons on solidarity and the value of reaching out to ‘the other’. However, once again we are face-to-face with the pain and destruction of war.
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- April 6, 2022A Reflection for the Second Sunday of Easter / Divine Mercy Sunday (24th April 2022)
Thomas is absent when Jesus comes and stands in the midst of the apostles in the locked room and shows them his hands and his side. The disciples rejoice. However, the returning Thomas is having none of it: “Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands and put my finger into the nail marks and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.”
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- March 28, 2022