The Alphabet of Lent – Letter I

I for Invitation Invitations – we receive all kinds of them. In times past, we used to receive them in the mail, or someone brought them to us. Nowadays, the emails and social media bring them to us with an amazing frequency! Invitation to join a group. Invitation to take […]

14th Sunday of Year A – 2023

It is summertime and many people are longing for a break. Some have been planning their vacation for a long time already. Others have decided they’ll leave as a family for a ‘trip to nowhere’. A few will be spending time at their chalet in the countryside. All of them […]

16th Sunday of Year B – 2021

It has been said that more than food, drink, or rest, what a human being needs is meaning. What is most necessary, in life, is a sense of direction, a purpose for living. The statistics about suicide given in the media support this affirmation. This thought came to me as […]

14th Sunday of the Year, A

The conversations overheard at a bus shelter or in the waiting-room of a clinic can be quite revealing. A woman may tell another: “You look tired…” To which the other replies: “Tired is not the word I am exhausted! It seems I get up in the morning as tired as […]