Ordinary Time… 3rd Sunday – Call Me Jonah (How to defy God) 23 Jan 202124 Jan 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…
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…
Christmas… Christmas – The Wonderful Exchange 25 Dec 202026 Dec 2020 Adoration of the Shepherds, Gerard van Honthorst Isaiah 9:1-7, Luke 2:1-14 At the heart of Christianity, the story of our salvation, is what the Fathers called the admirabile commercium (the ‘great’, ‘wonderful’…
Advent… 3rd Sunday – Year of the Lord’s Favour 13 Dec 20203 Jan 2021 Isaiah 61:1-11, John 1:6-8,19-28 What would you do, once things return to normal - whatever normal might be when this ends? Have you thought - am sure you have -…
Ordinary Time… 2nd Sunday – Perfect Sacrifice 19 Jan 20203 Apr 2020 Isaiah 49:3-6, John 1:29-34 If you ever find yourself in the city of Ghent, in Belgium, you should go to St Bavo’s Cathedral to see the display of the Flemish…