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 Second Sunday of Christmas (3rd January 2021)
It is not often that I have the opportunity to spend Christmas with my family, but this year I have the chance to reflect back on the Christmases when I was a teenager. I look back in gratitude, but once upon a time I didn't think my present life choice would be possible. Recently, at a Funeral Mass of a friend, I was told that my becoming a priest surprised many!
Author: - December 27, 2020
A Reflection for the Feast of the Holy Family (27th December 2020)
In the days of the great sailing ships, before the discovery of the compass, the old Portuguese sailors said, “The stars are there to guide us, but we will never reach them.” That saying applies to today’s “Feast of the Holy Family”, that unique family. They are there to guide us, though we will never be fully like them.
Author: - December 15, 2020
A Reflection for Christmas Day 2020
https://catholicreadings.org/christmas-mass-during-the-night/ The Christmas Story The birth of Christ is a call, an invitation, to reimagine the world, the whole universe, and our place in it. To do so in the image of the One who came as Gift. The true nature of which, is to give itself away. Gift cultures…
Author: - December 14, 2020
