A Reflection for the Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (11th July 2021)
Sunday is a day of blessing – the blessing! It’s the day to celebrate that we are made new. A day to start over. This Sunday, when we gather, we will have some poetry put before us as usual. We probably don’t think of the responsorial psalm that way – but what else is it?
Author: - June 29, 2021
A Reflection for the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (4th July 2021)
Jesus returns to Nazareth and is rejected by his own people. I began to wonder why. What was it about him that frightened them? Clearly, he posed a threat. And then I asked myself the same question because he frightens me too. And it has something to do with knowing him versus knowing about him. I, too, know all about Jesus. I have been learning about him since I was a child. And then in the seminary and in Theology school. And I even preach about him. ‘Knowing about him’ is no skin off my nose. ‘Knowing him’ is what I find difficult.
Author: - June 28, 2021
A Reflection for the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time (24th January 2021)
Pope Francis has asked that the Third Sunday of the Year be marked each year as “Word of God Sunday”.
Author: - January 13, 2021
Feast of The Baptism of the Lord (10th January 2021)
With this feast we move from Christmastide into what is called Ordinary time, except of course that there is nothing ordinary about it!
Author: - January 6, 2021
