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: - October 27, 2021
A Reflection for the Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time (26th September 2021)
It was a scorcher of a day and he had been out in the fields now about four hours. - No one else around for miles. - He looked out along the horizon as the fields were flat. - In the heat of the day, the sweat was pouring down the back of his neck. - He could feel the salt on his lips; he wiped it from his brow. - Suddenly, a stranger seemed to appear from nowhere. - The stranger reached out his hand and gave him a flask of water.
Author: - August 31, 2021
A Reflection for the Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (1st August 2021)
Food for Thought – Thinking about Food. There is an early scene in the musical ‘Oliver’, where the young orphan approaches the master. With an empty bowl in arms outstretched and upheld, and driven by hunger, he has the courage to say, ‘Please sir, I want some more’. And then this scene morphs itself in my memory into lines of children waiting for rations in any of a number of refugee camps or feeding centres around the world.
Author: - July 29, 2021
Reflection for the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Sunday, 7th Feb 2021)
One of the interesting aspects of some of the gospel stories is the connection between many of the miracles attributed to Jesus and His reaching out to touch those in need of his help - the curing of the blind, the deaf, the lepers...
Author: - January 27, 2021
