Soul Food for Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time 5th November 2023
Therefore, do and observe all things whatsoever they tell you, but do not follow their example. For they preach but they do not practice. This powerful line from today’s Gospel, is an invitation to authenticity. Who are we? Are we a people who practise what we preach; Do we walk the talk? Reflecting on Jesus’s transformational engagement with people in the Gospels, it seems that his engagement was about him being an authentic person, where what he said matched to who he was.
Author: - November 1, 2023
Soul Food for Mission Sunday, 22nd October 2023
“Give to God what belongs to God.” On this Mission Sunday we are reminded in the Gospel that Jesus’s focus was ‘what belongs to God’. Often in life we can go from day to day, and from moment to moment thinking that we have all life under our control. We move from day to day without concern. Unfortunately, many life events that shock us point to a reality that is beyond our control...
Author: - October 4, 2023
Soul Food for the Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time, 15th October
For most of my teenage years I was a boy scout in the 45th Unit based in Mount Argus, Dublin. It’s only in recent years that I’ve come to appreciate what a gift it was to me – and to my brother who was also in the scouts – to be able to learn the life-skills that we acquired in the scouts and to have the adventures that we had back then. I have very vivid and precise memories of our troop leader who was a force of nature, a very skilled scout, a very good person, a great leader and – above all – a great entertainer. No matter how long the road was, no matter how wet we got as we trudged through the Wicklow mountains every second or third Sunday, he always had a quip, a quick word to cheer us up and to drive us on...
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Soul Food for the Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, 8th October
Today's Gospel links the vineyard to those who bear fruit. When we love each other, we become bearers of God’s fruit. Today we are more aware of differences in our society, and we ask how we can be more inclusive of those marginalised in our communities. In a personal way, I was touched by the words of Pope Francis in Lisbon during World Youth Day. He profoundly described a Church that is open to all people...
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