A Reflection for the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time (23rd January 2022)
My first mission was to Ethiopia in 1974. It was a difficult place as the then marxist government had taken over and it was almost impossible to preach the gospel. My job was to teach in a public school as a means of doing youth work. All schools in Ethiopia…
Author: - January 15, 2022
A Reflection for the Second Sunday of the Year (16th Jan 2022)
There is a variety of gifts, but always the same Spirit; there are all sorts of service to be done, but always the same Lord; working in all sorts of different ways in different people, it is the same God who is works all of them. The particular way in which the Spirit is given to each person is for a good purpose. When I sit with scripture, I am very often reminded that God doesn’t enjoy sameness. Our creator God enjoys diversity and uniqueness.
Author: - January 12, 2022
A Reflection for The Feast of the Baptism of the Lord (9th Jan 2022)
In today’s Gospel we don’t get a description of the baptism of Jesus. Luke simply tells us that, after his baptism, Jesus was praying and the Spirit came upon him as the Father spoke to him. It is interesting to think about Jesus praying, and Luke clearly wants us to think about it a lot. Many times in his Gospel (much more often than the other evangelists do) he depicts Jesus as praying. It is as though Luke wants his readers to understand that, if Jesus prayed in order to know and do what his Father wanted, how much more should we?
Author: - January 5, 2022
A Reflection for the Feast of the Epiphany (6th January 2022)
And they returned to their own country by a different way. We are coming now to the end of another Christmas season. Hopefully, despite the pressures of Covid and all that goes with it, we have had some good moments – the kind that we associate with a ‘normal Christmas’. However, if we have given time at all to think about the true meaning of the season, today is a good day to take stock...
Author: - January 4, 2022
