Easter… 6th Sunday – “I Have Called You Friends” 9 May 20219 May 2021 John 15:9-17 If someone asked you the essence of your faith, what would you say? The Trinity? Jesus? Salvation – how we sinned, and he came to save us? Would…
Easter… 5th Sunday – Abiding in the Vine 1 May 20212 May 2021 John 15:1-8 The gospel of John opens with the disciples asking Jesus: ‘Rabbi, where do you abide?’ The rest of the gospel, in a way, would be an answer to…
Easter… 3rd Sunday – Kerygma, Kingdom, Apokatastasis 18 Apr 202119 Apr 2021 Acts 3:1-26 A lapsed Catholic, a disillusioned Evangelical and an atheist walk into a Church…they hear the proclamation of the Word and they all come to faith! I know, that’s…
Easter… 2nd Sunday – Incredulous Mercy 15 Apr 20211 May 2021 Q: What do you get when you cross a fish with an elephant? A: Swimming trunks. Q: What do you get when you cross a dinosaur with a pig? A:…
Year B Low Sunday – Touched by the Wounds 10 Apr 20211 May 2021 We come to the first Sunday after Easter or Low Sunday. Low Sunday does not mean one is ‘low’ after the ‘high’ of Easter! It is rather the octave day…
Year B Easter Vigil – Christ our Rock 5 Apr 2021 I’ve been enjoying this glorious sun this past couple of days. It’s a dramatic ray of hope in the middle of winter! Sometimes you need a few months of darkness…
Easter… Easter Sunday – The Stone that was Rolled Away 4 Apr 202118 Apr 2021 Resurrection of Christ, Nicholas Bertin Mark 16:1-8 "For I am not ashamed of the gospel. For it is the power of God unto salvation for everyone who believes..." Rom 1:16…
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…
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…
