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A Reflection for The Feast of the Ascension / Seventh Sunday of Easter, 29th May 2022

In today’s Gospel, Luke tells us that when Jesus was carried up to heaven, the disciples returned to Jerusalem, ‘full of joy’. What a marked contrast to the reaction of those same disciples to the events of Good Friday. The sadness, the uncertainty, the fear of then has now disappeared, and they have become men and women with a mission. heir mission is to be witnesses to their own experience of the Jesus who spoke so many inspiring parables, who brought God’s forgiveness, who healed the sick, who welcomed saints and sinners alike, who reached out to the most marginalised in society...

Author: admin - May 9, 2022

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A Reflection for Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion (10th April) 2022

Wars rage, we have a climate emergency and Covid-19 continues to threaten. The human suffering and sadness are incalculable. We all live in the dark shadow of these realities, and –in varying degrees – people are dealing with daily challenges, sometimes coping with issues from poverty to ill-health to loss. Keeping faith with ourselves and our world can be a struggle.

Author: admin - March 28, 2022

A Reflection for the Fifth Sunday of Lent (3rd April) 2022

Today’s story of the woman caught in adultery is immensely sad. Some say that, as He was so upset, Jesus bent down and wrote on the ground to avoid the eyes of the malevolent, misled Scribes and Pharisees. Others say that He wrote the sins of the indicting leaders. No one is sure.

Author: admin - March 27, 2022

Never stop loving on a fence

A Reflection for the Thirty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time (7th November 2021)

Why do we do the things that we do? All sorts of people in the bible do all sorts of things – good and not so good. When we help others, do we do it: out of guilt, for show, to be seen and to elevate ourselves in others’ eyes? Is it to increase our social status and, in the eyes of our community, to be ‘a great person who…’? Or is it to genuinely help?

Author: admin - October 27, 2021

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