It is interesting to observe children doing different things on their own. It is even more fascinating to see them interacting with one another. Recently, I passed by a boy and a girl chatting with much excitement. The boy said loudly: “My father is stronger than yours”! But my father […]
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 – […]
World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation – 1 September
Pope Francis has declared September 1 as the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation. « The annual World Day of prayer for the Care of Creation offers to individual believers and to the community a precious opportunity to renew our personal participation in this vocation as custodians of […]
17th Sunday of the Year, C
Boldness is not usually appreciated – it is sometimes judged as a display of arrogance, the attitude of someone aggressive. But boldness is also recognised in someone courageous, daring, fearless. In the first reading of this Sunday (17th Sunday, Year C – Gn.18:2-32), we meet someone surprisingly bold! This text […]
14th Sunday of the Year, C
We could easily have missed it! Yes, I mean the text for our reflection this Sunday (14th Sunday, Year C). The 1st reading is that of Isaiah 66:10-14. The book of the prophet Isaiah has exactly 66 chapters and the last one has 24 verses in all. So our reference […]
He has known something of God’s mercy…
In the prayer he wrote for the Jubilee Year of Mercy, Pope Francis mentions a number of people who have had a first-hand experience of God’s mercy in Jesus. Zacchaeus is one of them, as the text says: « Your loving gaze freed Zacchaeus… » In the following video, he tells us […]
Pope Francis’ first book
Copies of Pope Francis’ first book ‘The Name of God is Mercy ‘ are adjusted on a shelf ahead of its official launch, in Rome, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2016. The book, a 100-page conversation with Italian journalist Andrea Tornielli, is being published this week in 86 countries to help kick-start […]