In the 1st reading of last Sunday (Exodus 20:1-17) God gave his people what is known as: The ten commandments. In that text, we can read: “You shall not make for yourself a carved image – any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water […]
Good Friday, Year B
“The crowds were appalled on seeing him – so disfigured did he look that he seemed no longer human – … without beauty, without majesty, No looks to attract our eyes… A man to make people screen their faces. » This is what Isaiah tells us in the 1st reading of […]
33rd Sunday of the Year, C
November is there – the days are shorter and the clouds are often masters of the sky. It seems that the days are dark, dull and dreary and… somehow dispiriting. But let the sun suddenly shine through the clouds and everything is changed: the colours take on richer hues – […]
Ordinary time?
Christmas has gone by, the New Year has been with us for 10 days now, and we have celebrated the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord – so we are back to ‘ordinary time’, or… are we? « It might seem like a contradiction in terms but Ordinary time can […]