In today’s readings, we are offered some excellent pointers in coping with our fears, not through logic or rationality, but through faith. Our ancestors in the faith have alluded to the universal human experience of fear...
This annual feast offers an ideal time to reaffirm the church’s belief that the bread and wine are truly changed into the body and blood of the Lord. There should be no question that this is the faith...
The last few Sundays we were focusing on divine gifts. The first gift we reflected on was Jesus’ promise that he would be with us always. The second gift was the gift of an agenda which...
Today we have gathered together to celebrate the liberation that is Pentecost. Luke, in today’s first reading (Acts 2:1-11) speaks of the Spirit in terms of “tongues, as of fire”, and of &ldquo...
Do you remember Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I’ve been to the Mountaintop” speech delivered at the Mason Temple in Memphis, Tenn., on April 3, 1968, the day before he was assassinated? King&rsquo...
From last Sunday’s celebration of Jesus, our Good Shepherd, we turn our attention this week to who we are and how we are to live as Jesus’ sheep, or, to put it another way, as church. ...
“The death of Jesus is nothing for us if we have not died with Him; the resurrection of our Lord is nothing for us if we have not been raised with Him”. These are the words of...
Today, we celebrate Easter and the transforming vision associated with it. Jesus, who was dead, is risen! Alleluia! Today, we celebrate our belief that in Jesus’ death and rising, each of us has been afforded a...
Today we start Holy Week by the blessing and distributing Palms which signifies the triumphant arrival of Jesus into Jerusalem before his death and Resurrection.
This journey continues on Holy Thursday as we celebrate the Mass of the Last Supper...
This week, the readings focus on the promise of life after death. The prophet Ezekiel (37:12-14) reminds us that it is by the very Spirit Of God that we will be called forth to rise from our...
At this time in our journey through Lent parishes with RCIA members conduct the second scrutiny. Our conversion journey becomes more focussed when the elect undergo the scrutiny on this 4th Sunday of Lent. If the ritual...
The praying assembly is invited this Sunday to learn the truth and challenge of God’s word through two men and a rather unusual woman. Moses, in today’s 1st reading from the book of Exodus (17...
God summons us to a radical way of living. We are called to be more than just moral: God invites us to be virtuous. We become virtuous by habitually choosing to do good. Naturally, we are not...
The prophet Isaiah (58:7-10) and the evangelist Matthew (5:13-16) team up this Sunday to keep members of the praying assembly mindful of their responsibilities for one another and for the needy of this world. Matthew...
The proclamation of the Gospel on this Sunday and the next will reacquaint the praying assembly with the Great Sermon and its challenges. Although these challenges lie at the heart of what it means to be Christian, too few...
This Sunday’s Gospel (Mt 4:12-23) invites our attention to the call of the first disciples. It is coupled with Jesus’ command: “Reform your lives”. Without reform or the radical change that...
In this week's reading, we hear that when the Magi saw the star, they came into the house. Then what did they do when they saw the Christ child in the arms of his mother? They fell down and...
The word ‘epiphany’ was originally used in Greek mythology in the sense of ‘theophany’, viz., the manifestation of a god in human form. The Christian feast of Epiphany originated in the Eastern Church, probably to...
Today we honour Mary with a solemnity mass acknowledging a title for her that dates back to the Council of Ephesus in 431: “Mother of God”. The speciality of this year is that it coincides with the...
In his classic Christmas story The Story of the Other Wise Man (Harper, N.Y., 1899), Henry Van Dyke wrote of keeping Christmas not just one day but every day: “Are you willing to believe that love is...