A Reflection for the First Sunday of Lent
Mt. 4: 1 - 11 ( http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/030120.cfm ) Lent is a time of preparation. As such it presents an opportunity to focus once again on our priorities in life. Our day-to-day living presents us with so many options. Some of those, even though good in themselves, might also be considered temptations. Is that what we have in today’s…
Author: - March 1, 2020
A Reflection for the Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mt. 5: 38 - 48 ( http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/022320.cfm ) Be Holy, for I, the Lord your God, am holy. In the rural Ireland of the 1950s and ‘60s where I grew up, to tell someone "you are holy", would be vigorously rejected; rather, the person would acknowledge, quite readily, being a sinner. Monthly confession…
Author: - February 23, 2020
A Reflection for the Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Among the many themes for today are forgiveness and reconciliation: “First go and be reconciled with your brother…”
Author: - February 16, 2020
A Reflection for the Fifth Sunday of Ordinary Time
MT 5: 13-16 (http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/020920.cfm) “Be salt, as Jesus said, putting flavour into other’s lives,” mused Pete, “or be a light to help others find and praise God?” Once a group of teenagers were at a birthday party. They were a happy group. Just then the light in the room went…
Author: - February 9, 2020
