A Reflection for the Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (18th July) 2021)
Calling someone a Jeremiah is not a compliment! This prophet is associated with doom and gloom, and with dire warnings and threats. We get a hint of that in today’s first reading. However, Jeremiah deserves a better press. More than any other prophet he has a capacity to tell it as he sees it and that applies not only to his people but also to his God!
Author: - June 29, 2021
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?
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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 Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (27th June 2021)
There is a great air of relief and satisfaction here in Ireland at the moment as we come out of fourteen months of lockdown. Likewise, there is great excitement in the vaccination centres; everyone is so helpful, chatty and grateful. Good news all round! Hope for a brighter future! Not a bad backdrop for the two healing stories in today’s Gospel. The woman who has been suffering from a blood disorder has been shunned and excluded from society! ...
Author: - May 26, 2021
