Ordinary Time… 6th Sunday – The Purification of the Lepros 13 Feb 20216 Mar 2021 Leviticus 13:1-2,44-46, Mark 1:40-45 We are offered a significant miracle of healing in Mark’s gospel, that of a lepros. The account is very vivid. What is translated as leprosy is…
Ordinary Time… 5th Sunday – The Gift (and curse) of Work 6 Feb 202127 Feb 2021 Joseph the Carpenter, Georges de La Tour Job 7:1-7, Mark 1:29-39 We have a word that seems very relevant for the time we are living through in this pandemic. Job…
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 – To Hear, to Seek, to Speak, to Become (Part 2) 16 Jan 20216 Feb 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 – To Hear, to Seek, to Speak, to Become (Part 1) 16 Jan 202131 Jan 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…
Ordinary Time… Thursday Week 33 – 7 seals, 7 Horns, 7 Eyes 19 Nov 202019 Nov 2020 Apocalypse 5:1-10 Anyone who has picked up the book of Revelation knows that it has some strange imagery. In the first reading today we see a Lamb with seven horns…
Ordinary Time… 33rd Sunday – Fear, Valour and the Joy of the Lord 15 Nov 202012 Dec 2020 The Stretcher, Eleuterio Pagliano. Prov 31:10-31, Matt 25:14-30 We come to the final parable in Matthew’s gospel. It leads to the awesome scene of the Final Judgement, which also sets…
Ordinary Time… 32nd Sunday – The Burning Love of the Bride 8 Nov 202028 Nov 2020 Wise and Foolish Virgins, William Blake Matt 25:1-13 Weddings, then, like now, were elaborate affairs. They probably lasted a whole week. In first century Jewish weddings, the man would first…
Ordinary Time… 29th Sunday – Taxes,Caesar and God 18 Oct 20208 Nov 2020 The Tribute Money, Thomas Sully Matt 22:15-21 In today’s gospel, we have an unholy alliance, of the Pharisees and the Herodians who come together against Jesus. The question they pose,…
Ordinary Time… 28th Sunday – The Process of Judgement 11 Oct 202031 Oct 2020 Parable of the Wedding Banquet, from paintingvalley.com Isaiah 25:6-10, Matt 22:1-14 We reach the last part of Matthew’s gospel as Jesus enters Jerusalem. (If you’re wondering whether you missed something,…
Ordinary Time… 27th Sunday – “Falling asleep in the Father’s arms” 4 Oct 202016 Oct 2020 Saint Paul Writing His Epistles, by Valentin de Boulogne. Phil 4:6-9 Philippians is among the last letters written by Paul. We know that he was in captivity, though it is…
Ordinary Time… 27th Sunday -Tending the Vineyard 4 Oct 20205 Oct 2020 Matt 21:33-43 So many of our problems come from thinking that our life belongs to us. Take our lack of patience, for example, when we say that someone is “wasting…
Ordinary Time… 26th Sunday -Phronesis and the Drama of Suffering 27 Sep 202010 Oct 2020 The Apostle Paul by Rembrandt Phil 2:1-11 Philippi was a Roman Colony. A colony of Rome was an extension of Rome and it’s rule. These weren’t colonies in the sense we…
Ordinary Time… 25th Sunday – Why be envious because I’m generous? 19 Sep 20205 Oct 2020 Workers in the Vineyard, Rembrandt Isaiah 55:6-9, Matthew 20:1-16 The parables of Jesus are masterful constructions, deceptively simple in their appearance. Very often they are seen as similes, helping one…
