Holy Week… Good Friday – The Silence of Heaven 2 Apr 202115 Apr 2021 Any musician will tell you that the rests, the pauses in music are as important in a piece as the notes themselves. Today is a rare time, maybe the only…
Holy Week… Palm Sunday – The Extravagance of Love 28 Mar 202110 Apr 2021 Mosaic from the Cappella della “Casa incontri cristiani” a Capiago Mark 14:1-15:47 As we begin Holy Week, I just want to reflect on just one incident within the shocking drama that…
Lent… 5th Sunday – The Prayer of the Heart 21 Mar 20214 Apr 2021 An icon of the Desert Fathers Jer 31:31-34 This Word we have received today from Jeremiah, could well claim to be summary of all of the Hebrew Scriptures. Here you…
Lent… 4th Sunday – Maria Goretti and the Gaze from the Cross 13 Mar 20212 Apr 2021 Crucifix d’Arezzo by Giacobbe Giusti John 3:14-21 On the 24th June, 1950, less than fifty years after her death, Pope Pius XII canonised a new saint, Maria Goretti. The canonisation…
Lent… 3rd Sunday -The Ten Words of Life 6 Mar 202128 Mar 2021 Philippe de Champaigne, Moses with the Ten Commandments Exodus 20:1-17 We are presented today with the Decalogue, or the Ten Commandments. This is one of those things with which we…
Lent… 2nd Sunday – Overwhelmed by Light 27 Feb 202121 Mar 2021 Mark 9:2-10 The Transfiguration is one of the scenes which you can return to, over and over again and find a source of deep nourishment. It comes to us in…
Lent… 1st Sunday – Overcoming the Passions 21 Feb 202113 Mar 2021 Maerten de Vos, The Temptation of Saint Anthony Mark 1:12-15 As Lent begins, the gospel focuses on Jesus’ testing in the wilderness. Mark does not give us the content of…
Holy Week… Maundy Thursday – The Revelation of Divine Love 9 Apr 202026 Apr 2020 Maundy Thursday marks the instituting of three realities. The gift of the Eucharist, the gift of the Priesthood and the giving of the new command – the mandatum – “Love one another…
Holy Week… Palm Sunday -Never Forsaken 5 Apr 202019 Apr 2020 See, the storm of the Lord will burst out in wrath, a whirlwind swirling down on the heads of the wicked. - Jeremiah 23:16 “He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster.…
Lent… 5th Sunday – Death, the Church and the Voice of the Son of God 29 Mar 202011 Apr 2020 John 11:1-45 The Sunday of the Third Scrutiny. In the First Scrutiny, we met Jesus as the one who can satisfy our restlessness – our infinite thirst. Last Sunday we…
Lent… 4th Sunday – The Glory of New Creation 22 Mar 20205 Apr 2020 John 9:1-41 This is the Sunday of the Second Scrutiny for those preparing for baptism. We are living in strange times, with our public liturgies on hold. But the Word…
Lent… 3rd Sunday – Awakening Desire 15 Mar 202011 Apr 2020 John 4:5-42 The third Sunday of Lent, we come to Jesus’ encounter with the Samaritan woman. We hear it today because it is the Sunday of the First Scrutiny for…
Lent… 2nd Sunday – The Place of Possibility 8 Mar 20203 Apr 2020 Genesis 12:1-4; Matthew 17:1-9 This Easter, we are blessed to have several adults being baptised and others received into the Church. We have to ask, why would anyone want to…
Lent… 1st Sunday -The Way of the Desert 1 Mar 20203 Apr 2020 Matt 4:1-11 The desert can teach us a lot about life. I discovered something of this on a recent walking retreat in the Sahara, on which I was privileged to…
