T for Time Time – we speak about it in many ways: “The time comes… Time passes… Time flies… I don’t have time… If you had time… If there is time…” Obviously, time is measured in different ways according to the beliefs of people. So there are calendars called: Gregorian, […]
2nd Sunday of Advent, Year C – 2021
It happens to most of us: we sometimes feel we have too much to do, too many things to see to. The commitments we have taken on are just too many. The people relying on us for help, or advice, are too many, and their demand on our time is […]
Ascension of the Lord, Year B – 2021
Time, moments in time, seasons… they rule our life. But we need to learn how to live according to their rhythm. The 1st reading of this Feast of the Ascension of Jesus (Acts 1:1-11) shows him teaching his apostles for the last period during which he will be visibly present […]
1st Sunday of Lent, Year B – 2021
We have entered a new period of what is called the liturgical year. We are now in the Season of Lent – a season rich in meaning. In the gospel text of this 1st Sunday (Mk.1:13-15), we hear Jesus tell us: “The time has come.” The time of what? […]
3rd Sunday of Lent, Year C – 2019
It happens that we go to some neighbours, friends, colleagues, to ask for something. What do we actually request from them? We may want some help, information, cooperation, assistance for this or that purpose. We may also hope to receive from them understanding, sympathy, friendship. Today’s gospel text (Lk.13:1-9) gives […]
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 […]
13th Sunday of the Year, A
“FIRST THINGS FIRST”! We hear these words from time to time. They usually come from someone who has a lot to do already and to whom someone may ask to do something more… The person may feel that too many tasks demand his attention, too many commitments claim her time […]
3rd Sunday of Lent, C
TIC, TOC, TIC, TOC……. The sound used to be familiar, the sound of the clock ticking. No longer so with all our silent gadgets still doing the same old task of… measuring time. And with the modern tempo of our busy lives, you will still hear the well-worn expressions: […]
Ordinary time?
Christmas has gone by, the New Year has been with us for 10 days now, and we have celebrated the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord – so we are back to ‘ordinary time’, or… are we? « It might seem like a contradiction in terms but Ordinary time can […]
Christmas, C
CHRISTMAS, a time to rejoice and to celebrate. We somehow move a short distance away from our routine tasks and daily activities. We try to take time – time to reflect, time to look at things, situations, and people, in a different way. Strange, but it seems that those very […]