The reflection on the Sunday celebration is usually focused on one of the readings. However, this Sunday, the Responsorial Psalm (Psalm 95:1-2,6-9) has been chosen. The text calls to us in these words: “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.” This text could be […]
22nd Sunday of Year A – 2023
Our lives are woven with all kinds of relationships: family, relatives, friends, neighbours, colleagues. There are also the specialists we are referred to, or the technicians who fix things for us. Our relationship with each one of them can be very different. Some neighbours may become friends, but we […]
2nd Sunday of Lent, Year C – 2022
In times of need, in times of shortage of money, some people risk using the ‘credit’ option – they decide to get some commodities on credit and… pay later. Different forms of advertising invite them to do precisely that. Some shopkeepers will accept to extend credit to customers, others will […]
17th Sunday of Year B – 2021
The methodology of… God can be quite surprising and sometimes rather upsetting – we have all experienced it! He has told us about this long ago through his prophet, Isaiah, when he said openly: “My ways are not your ways” (Is.55:8). But it seems that we do not get used […]
6th Sunday of Easter, Year B – 2021
Someone faced with many commitments and countless things to do may suddenly exclaim: “First things first!” It may be a good way to look at… our relationship with God! This thought is suggested to us in the 2nd reading of this Sunday (1 Jn.4:7-10): “This is love: not that we […]
28th Sunday of Year C – 2019
There is an English expression used quite often by people. It refers to the situation of ‘taking something for granted’. It describes the attitude of making use of something as if it was ‘normal’ to have it. We think that a certain object is meant to be at our service. […]
Feast of Mary, Mother of God, Year C
During this festive Season we have been exchanging good wishes of all kinds. We wish one another good health, happiness and peace, and many more good things. We sometimes summarize them in telling people that we want for them God’s blessings. The first reading of today’s celebration (Nb.6:22-27) is, in […]
30th Sunday of Year B
Let us imagine for a moment that someone would tell you: “God is calling you.” What would your reaction be? Many people would possibly think: “What does God want from me?” But should the question not rather be: “What does God want FOR me?” This thought came to me as […]
25th Sunday of Year A
EXPECTATIONS – we all have them and plenty of them, do we not ? And they fill our lives with more than a touch of hope and anticipation! Expectations of… – recovery after sickness, – success in a coming exam – a promotion at work, – the partner we dream of […]
23rd Sunday of Year A
We know and we believe that the word of God in Scripture tells us about him and his will for our lives. His message comes to us, ‘clothed’ if I may say, in all kinds of ways reaching us as light and guidance, strength and comfort. The prophets and the […]