L’expérience olympique 2024 bat son plein, elle en est à son 10è jour. Elle se poursuit par saut et par bond avec tout l’enthousiasme que l’on peut imaginer. Les athlètes se surpassent en espérant… surpasser aussi les participant/es avec qui ils/elles doivent se mesurer. Discipline et détermination sont évidentes. Les […]
2nd Sunday of Advent, Year A – 2022-2023
“Life is hard!” You may have heard a number of people say this recently, and you probably felt that you knew what they meant! Viruses of different kinds, the cost of living with inflation, shortage of different items, lack of personnel in different services, conflicts and war – the list […]
33rd Sunday of Year C – 2022
Some people would say that the text of today’s gospel is quite shocking (Luke 21:5-19). For them, two words may summarize the scenes we are given to witness: abomination and desolation. It is a rather accurate perception of the ‘mood’ of this text. The detailed description of events to take […]
Palm Sunday, Year C – 2019
Different situations can provoke different reactions in us. A threatening possibility can inspire fear. The anticipation of a positive happening may cause joy. A difficult problem may, of course, leave us puzzled. In the gospel text at the beginning of this celebration of Palm Sunday (Lk.19:28-40), there is something which […]
20th Sunday of Year A
I know a young man called William who was looking for work. It is not easy nowadays to find a job when so many are being laid off. He went to a Bank but was not lucky. He then contacted an Insurance Company but was not accepted. A bookshop did […]
20è dimanche de l’année, C
En cette saison, un poste de télévision étrangère fait la publicité d’une série d’émissions avec des expressions qui suscitent l’intérêt. On nous promet la rencontre avec des personnes qui ont réalisé quelque chose de spécial dans leur vie et on nous propose leur exemple comme inspiration en nous disant de ces […]