06 March, 2020. Friday of Week 1 of Lent
We call on the Holy Spirit to stir up within us the love lived by Jesus himself to reach the standards expected from the children of God…
05 March, 2020. Thursday of Week 1 of Lent
What are we to seek? What should we ask for? We should want what God wants to happen in our lives. …
04 March, 2020. Wednesday of Week 1 of Lent
On seeing the repentance of Nineveh, God showed them mercy. If such repentance is possible, how can we give up hope in our time…
03 March, 2020. Tuesday of Week 1 of Lent
He wants us to broaden our focus from just our personal needs and pray as members of a community. It is a prayer that speaks of OUR needs rather than just MY needs…..
02 March, 2020. Monday of Week 1 of Lent
There can be more potential in our daily encounters than we realize at the time, a chance to do something precious in the sight of the Lord…
Presider’s Page for 1 March (First Sunday of Lent)
We celebrate the first Sunday of Lent. All over the world today, men and women are beginning a period of preparation for their baptism at the Easter Vigil. Like them, we spend Lent preparing to renew our baptismal vows at Easter, looking forward to our blessing with Easter water and to receiving the gift of a new start.
01 March, 2020. 1st Sunday of Lent (A)
Why does the number of suicides keep rising, in spite of our prosperity? Why do we need to barricade ourselves…?
29 February, 2020. Saturday after Ash Wednesday
The Lord is always willing to sit with us, to share table with us, to interact with us and be our inspiration in life…
28 February, 2020. Friday after Ash Wednesday
Any service done in love is very acceptable to God and gives substance to anything else we may do for Lent…
27 February, 2020. Thursday after Ash Wednesday
Voluntary renunciation has a positive meaning. Giving up something for Lent is always with a view to living life more fully.
26 February, 2020. Ash Wednesday
Our ultimate destiny is not just a return to dust and ashes but sharing in the Lord’s risen life and seeing God face-to-face…
25 February, 2020. Tuesday of Week 7
Just as children easily begin to join other children as playmates, so we should respect those who are least self-important…
24 February, 2020. Monday of Week 7
Even when all seems lost, we need to keep reaching out, like the man in today’s gospel, whose prayer was finally heard…
Presider’s Page for 23 February (Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time)
Loving the enemy and praying for those who make life difficult are two marks of a Christian, or so Jesus teaches us today. We gather, aware of how difficult love can be, yet united by the saving mercy of God, on which we rely.
23 February, 2020. 07th Sunday, Year A
Mercy is the outstanding gift of God even of the “Old Testament God” whom many imagine as predominantly harsh and punitive …
22 February, 2020. Chair of St Peter the Apostle
Today we pray for divine guidance on our present pope and on the whole church of God throughout the world…
21 February, 2020. Friday of Week 6
If we reach out a helping hand to our neighbour in need, we are carrying the cross in the way that matters…
20 February, 2020. Thursday of Week 6
James hits out against servile deference and class distinction. He will not have us show special regard to rich, fashionably dressed people, while despising others …
19 February, 2020. Wednesday of Week 6
We cannot walk this path without help, but must let ourselves be led, like the blind man whom Jesus took by the hand…
18 February, 2020. Tuesday of Week 6
Like Jesus, James urges us to value the spiritual side of life. How else can one persevere till the end unless by having a deeply rooted hope?