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, […]
The Alphabet of Lent – Letter D
D for DISCIPLES The expression: ‘The DISCIPLES of Jesus’ is familiar to us. Apart from the twelve apostles whose names we know, the gospel speaks also of seventy-two disciples (Luke 10:1-24). We imagine them listening to Jesus and following him on the roads where he walks. Our imagination does not […]
15th Sunday of Year C – 2022
There are people who regret not to have been among those who walked the paths of Palestine when Jesus himself was doing so – they would have seen him with their own eyes! More people still lament the fact that God is… invisible – if only they could get a […]
5th Sunday of Year C – 2022
The mention of the word GOD can bring different images to our minds, images and feelings. Sad to say, often the first feeling that arises within us is… fear. It has been so through the history of humanity – people have been afraid of the God they worshipped. The 1st […]
Feast of All Saints, Year A – 2020
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, […]
24th Sunday of Year B
When the word ‘GOD’ is pronounced, several images can come to the minds of different people. Each person has, in some way, his or her own God. Of course, everyone claims it is the ‘true’ God, yet he is perceived in many ways. Is it a question of choosing the […]
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 […]
8th Sunday of the Year, A
We can paint pictures – with paintbrushes and colours. A stroke here, a line there, a brushing here, an addition there and… we get an image, a representation of something, of someone. But we can also paint… with words: the description of a scene, the evocation of an event, the […]