We celebrate today the feast of all the saints – those well known and those perhaps not as familiar to us. As we remember this particular saint, and that other, and others still, we may stop thinking of them and start looking at our own lives. And as we do, […]
All Saints Day – 1st November
Source: Image: Stained Glass window depicting Catholic Saints in the Cathedral of Saint Bavo in Ghent, Flanders, Belgium.
26th Sunday of Year B – 2024
God’s ways are… so often different from what we expect… Different and puzzling… we are tempted to question them… In fact… they question us! The text of today’s 1st reading does precisely this (Number 11:25-29). In the scene described, we see the Jewish leader, Moses, and we are told that, […]
Holy Trinity Sunday, Year B – 2024
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 […]
Pentecost Sunday, Year B – 2024
How can we speak of the immaterial, yet very personal? How can we approach the invisible, yet very close to us? How can we relate to the divine, creative Spirit? Human words and usual expressions are weak and poor to establish… a relation! But symbols may come to our help […]
The Alphabet of Lent – Letter E
E pour ENEMIES There are things which are not easy to do… There are others that we find really hard to realize… But there are still others that we find absolutely impossible to accomplish!… The words of Jesus cannot be misinterpreted (Matthew 5:43-45). They reach us, every one of us, […]
4th Sunday of Advent, Year A – 2022-2023
“God needs help!” If you saw this caption in a magazine about spiritual reflections, or biblical matters, you may smile and… turn the page, saying this is not serious. Yet, it is truly deep theology, authentic understanding of who God is indeed. The gospel texts of Luke and Matthew bear […]
Feast of the Ascension, Year C – 2022
Today’s feast is somehow mysterious… In the 1st reading, we are told that, risen from the dead, Jesus has been appearing to his apostles a number of times (Acts 1:1-11). A few verses later, we see him disappearing from their sight. Appearing, disappearing – these two words bring to mind […]
28th Sunday of Year B – 2021
Daydreaming can bring someone to wish for all kinds of things – The things that Royalty and wealthy people can have already: power and privileges, gold, silver, and precious stones. And sometimes, health and beauty are added to this rich mixture! In today’s 1st reading (Wisdom 7:7-11), we meet […]
Feast of the Holy Trinity, Year B – 2021
There are things and situations which somehow leave us… uncertain. We look at the different angles of a reality and we are perplexed… We wonder whether we are right in our appraisal of a given situation. Our identity could be one of them, who we really are. Of course, we […]