Ordinary Time… 4th Sunday – The Voice of Authority 31 Jan 202121 Feb 2021 Jesus casting out demons, unknown artist. Mark 1:21-28 Mark gives us a snapshot of the first day of Jesus’ ministry. We’ve heard only a part of it. Jesus enters the…
Ordinary Time… 3rd Sunday – Call Me Jonah (How to defy God) 23 Jan 202123 Feb 2021 Jonah and the Whale (1621) by Pieter Lastman Jonah 3:1-10 We hear this Sunday from the hilarious (yet profound!) book of the prophet Jonah. This is the only Sunday of the three-year…
Ordinary Time… 2nd Sunday (Part 2) – To Speak, to Become 16 Jan 202115 Apr 2021 St John the Evangelist, Carlo Dolci John 1:35-42, 1 Sam 3:3-19 We spoke of the first two movements in the last account of the disciples encountering Jesus for the first…
Ordinary Time… 2nd Sunday (Part 1)- To Hear, to Seek 16 Jan 202115 Apr 2021 The Lamb of God, Pietro Bernini John 1:35-42, 1 Sam 3:3-19 It’s a real gift to reflect on these texts from the gospel of John during the year. What we…
Christmas… Baptism of the Lord – Open to the Father’s Love 10 Jan 202123 Jan 2021 The Baptism of Christ, Leonardo da Vinci Isaiah 42:1-7, Mark 1: 7-11 2015 saw the demise of one of the brightest intellectuals of our age, Rene Girard. His work spanned…
Christmas… Feast of the Baptism – One with Us 10 Jan 202116 Jan 2021 Do you remember Jacob’s ladder, with the angels ascending and descending? Throughout the Christmas season we have contemplated how God came down that ladder to our world, how he came…
Feasts… Epiphany – The Risk of Faith 5 Jan 202116 Jan 2021 Matthew 2:1-12 The feast of Epiphany. We meet the Magi, these well-loved characters in every crib. Today, they are contrasted with another character, Herod. Between them, they represent the best…
Christmas… 2nd Sunday – Life, Light and Love in the Beginning 3 Jan 202110 Jan 2021 John 1:1-18 Coming to the Prologue of John’s gospel is like arriving at the foot of Mount Everest. We gaze upon it’s stunning height and grandeur. The difference is that…
