Year B Fruitful Lives 28 Apr 2024 St Patrick's Soho, 5th Sunday of Easter There is a very prevalent trend of thought in our time that some philosophers have dubbed “expressive individualism.” Expressive individualism holds that each…
Ordinary Time… 17th Sunday – Sr Clare Crockett and Stumbling upon your Treasure 29 Jul 202323 Sep 2023 Matt 13:44-52 Last year, on our Confirmation retreat, we got all the children to watch a documentary on the life of Sr Clare Crockett. Clare lived a remarkable, though short,…
Ordinary Time… 3rd Sunday – Answering the Call 22 Jan 202325 Feb 2023 Caravaggio, The Calling of Peter and Andrew Matt 4:12-23 In today’s gospel, Jesus walks along the shore of Galilee and calls two brothers from two families. James and John leave…
Ordinary Time… 13th Sunday – Answering the Call 25 Jun 20229 Jul 2022 Image: the Ploughed field, by Van Gogh 1 Kings 19:16-21 The Word we have today focuses on the call of God. Elijah, the great, fiery prophet of Israel, drops his…
Ordinary Time… 5th Sunday – Glory, Goodness and the Call to Mission 6 Feb 202226 Feb 2022 Call of Peter, Raphael Isaiah 6:1-8, Lk 5:1-11 Ever since Pope Francis came to the seat of Peter, he’s been calling all Catholics to be missionary disciples. But we’re not…
Ordinary Time… 15th Sunday – The Prophet’s Burden 10 Jul 20211 Aug 2021 Amos 7:12-15 It is great to continue on this theme of prophecy this week, as we hear from Amos. It is a short book, very poetic, a work of great…
Feasts… The Holy Trinity – Mystery at the heart of the World 30 May 202119 Jun 2021 Romans 8:14-17 The solemnity of the Holy Trinity. It took the church four centuries to formulate its doctrine on the Trinity. Just in case, this is the one session you…
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… 2nd Sunday (Part 2) – To Speak, to Become 16 Jan 202115 Apr 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 (Part 1)- To Hear, to Seek 16 Jan 202115 Apr 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… 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… 12th Sunday- The Paradox of Vocation 20 Jun 202011 Jul 2020 Jeremiah 20:10-13 The recent movie, Paul, the Apostle of Jesus Christ, captured some aspects of the life of the first Christians very powerfully. They are living under constant threat of…