Reflection for the Second Sunday of the Season of Creation, 8th September 2024
Ephphata (Be opened). The man who can’t hear and can’t speak hears and speaks in today’s Gospel. As we begin our second week of the Season of Creation, we too seek to hear and speak of the Creation of God who has made us in God’s own image and likeness and shared with us the entire beauty of Creation of which we are a part. This year the theme of the Season is: To Hope and Act in Creation...
Author: - August 14, 2024
Reflection for World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, 1st September 2024
It is easy to take our natural world for granted. We see nature all around us, but do we really see it? The whole cycle of life and creation is in our seasons – waiting, being fully alive, decline and death – a mirror of our own lives. There is a whole world out there, not so different to us and our lifecycle. Look at the birds of the air and fish of the sea...
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Soul Food for The Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time, 25th August 2024
Compassion is a human feeling that we all experience, perhaps even every day. It is also one of the great Christian virtues and a tangible expression of love for those who suffer or are in need. Compassion has strong foundations in Scripture. Psalm 144 reminds us that ‘the Lord is kind and full of compassion, slow to anger, abounding in love. He is good to all, compassionate to all His creatures’.
Author: - August 5, 2024
Soul Food for The Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time, 18th August 2024
The concept of ‘Understanding’ is a recurring feature of today’s readings. In Proverbs we are advised to forsake foolishness and advance in the way of understanding; St. Paul encourages the community in Ephesus to try to understand the will of the Lord, and in our Gospel reading we find those following Jesus struggling to understand what he means when he says, ‘I am the living bread that came down from heaven’.
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