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… 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…
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… 22nd Sunday – Stumbling Stone 30 Aug 202019 Sep 2020 Felix Joseph Barrias, The Temptation of Christ Matt 16:21-27, Romans 12:1-2 “It so happened that I [once wrote] a bestseller; this was a pure accident, due to inattention and naiveté and I would take…
Ordinary Time… 21st Sunday – Rock of Salvation 23 Aug 202012 Sep 2020 Matthew 16:13-20 Christ giving the Keys of Heaven, Rubens The most important rock in all of Judaism was the foundation stone of the Temple. The Jews spoke of this as…
Ordinary Time… 19th Sunday- Elijah and Lessons in the Spiritual Life 9 Aug 202030 Aug 2020 1 Kings 19:9-13 If you’ve trained for a marathon or even otherwise, you might be familiar with the phrase ‘hitting the wall’. It’s the point where the body of the…
Ordinary Time… 15th Sunday (part 1) – To See and not Perceive 11 Jul 202025 Jul 2020 Isaiah by Michael Angelo, Sistine Chapel Isaiah 55:10-11, Matthew 13:1-23 A friend of mine always went to watch some of the most mind-twisting and complex, even disconcerting plots that came…
Feasts… Sts Peter and Paul – Archetypes of the Church 28 Jun 202012 Jul 2020 Acts 12:1-11, 2 Timothy 4:6-8,17-18, Matthew 16:13-19 Peter and Paul, by El Greco The Solemnity of Sts Peter and Paul. These two saints have been venerated from the earliest times…