3rd Sunday of Advent, Year C – 2024-2025

The text of today’s gospel presents us with people who have come to John the Baptist with the desire to be baptized by him (Luke 3:10-18).  We are told that they are asking themselves questions. “The people were waiting expectantly and were all wondering in their hearts…” What they were […]

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 […]

3rd Sunday of Advent, Year B – 2020

“You did not see this!” or “Did you not hear that?” “You have not done this?” or “You have not been there!” Whether in the form of a question, or an exclamation, many people do not like to be addressed in this way. Somehow, they perceive such words as an […]

2nd Sunday of Year A – 2019

When keying in a text on the computer, it happens that we write a word incorrectly. A red line appears under the faulty text and we know that a correction is required. Practising a sport of any kind, we know from experience that we must sometimes change our technique. A […]

2nd Sunday of the Year, A

Being a witness can be a duty and it sometimes becomes an obligation that cannot be avoided. It can be a pleasant task as it is to act as witnesses to the commitment of two people getting married. It can be a painful experience to retell the details of an […]

3rd Sunday of Advent, A

Things that are well known to us may tend to be so familiar that we forget about them, or we take them for granted. Either way, they do not have much impact on our lives. Could this be the case for the bible texts offered to our reflection during this […]