A Reflection for the 26th Sunday of Ordinary Time
I’m writing this while the media are screaming blue murder: headlines about Ireland’s ‘Golfgate’, bulletins about what Brussels thinks. It’s all heady stuff. Our so-called ‘betters’ – the great and the good, politicians, bankers, judges, members of the media and others –scampered off to Clifden in Connemara, and apparently broke all the rules that had been made to help us contain Covid-19.
Author: - September 27, 2020
A Reflection for the 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time
The latecomers in today’s Gospel story are the gentile peoples to whom the Good News and the call to work in the Lord’s vineyard came late in the day. The first to respond to Jesus’ call were his own faithful followers who left everything and followed him. But the leaders of the Jewish people rejected Jesus and had him crucified...
Author: - September 20, 2020
A Reflection for the Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
On Easter Sunday morning 2019 a number of bombs exploded in crowded churches in Sri Lanka killing over 200 people. I heard the report on the news that day and, in addition to the feeling of shock and horror, I was taken aback by the words of the country’s cardinal who was reported as saying that the government should “mercilessly hunt down the perpetrators...
Author: - September 13, 2020
A Reflection for the Twenty-third Sunday of Ordinary Time
A friend of mine spent the summer preparing her eldest child to begin school this September. To give him the opportunity to meet some local children and to get used to being apart from her she enrolled him in summer camp. She had heard about the tears and tantrums that occur when some parents drop their children to school but wasn’t expecting it to happen to her. Despite being excited to experience something new, her son was filled with dread at the prospect of a day away...
Author: - September 6, 2020
