A Reflection for the Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time (31st January 2021)
As I look back on nearly twenty-four years of varied missionary service and reflecting on 2020, a year which was like something out of Tales of the Unexpected, I am struck by the simple phrase in today’s gospel: the ‘just then’ unexpected moment for the man with an unclean spirit.
Author: - January 13, 2021
A Reflection for the First Sunday of Lent
Mt. 4: 1 - 11 ( http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/030120.cfm ) Lent is a time of preparation. As such it presents an opportunity to focus once again on our priorities in life. Our day-to-day living presents us with so many options. Some of those, even though good in themselves, might also be considered temptations. Is that what we have in today’s…
Author: - March 1, 2020
A Reflection for the Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mt. 5: 38 - 48 ( http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/022320.cfm ) Be Holy, for I, the Lord your God, am holy. In the rural Ireland of the 1950s and ‘60s where I grew up, to tell someone "you are holy", would be vigorously rejected; rather, the person would acknowledge, quite readily, being a sinner. Monthly confession…
Author: - February 23, 2020
A Reflection for the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mt 4: 12-23 (http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/012620.cfm) Celebrate, Study and Share these Dangerous Words! Among the great gifts that the many branches of the Christian family have in common are the Bible and the deep belief that God speaks to the people through its inspired words. Of course, there are many views, arguments…
Author: - February 2, 2020
