13 December, 2019. Friday of Advent, Week 2
The unresponsive children reminded Jesus of some dour, unresponsive adults round about him…
12 December, 2019. Thursday of Advent, Week 2
What they wanted to see was a man clothed in camel’s hair, with a leather belt about his loins, living a lifestyle in tune with his desert environment.
11 December. Wednesday of Advent, Week 2
Now is the time to ask the Lord to renew our active love, so that we can be channels of grace and care to others, and help them through the Winter…
10 December, 2019. Tuesday of Advent, Week 2
Not a single one of us is discarded by God. The parable invites us to value each other just as the Lord values each of us.
09 December, 2019. Immaculate Conception
1st Reading: Genesis 3:9-15, 20 Enmity between the serpent and the woman But the Lord God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?”He said, “I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.” He said, “Who told you that…
Presiders Page for 9 December (Immaculate Conception of the BVM)
Our preparations for Christmas always include Mary, the Mother of God. Her Advent feast is displaced from 8th December this year because of a clash with the Second Sunday of Advent, which we celebrated yesterday. Today, we honour her conception free from sin, a miracle that displays God’s power for believers. We worship God, for whom everything is posssible.
Presider’s Page for 8 December (Second Sunday of Advent)
John the Baptist is the focus of the Gospel reading on the Second Sunday of Advent each year. His words challenge and inspire. We worship God who uses many messengers to call us from darkness to light.
08 December, 2019. 2nd Sunday of Advent (A)
Of course, Christmas, our preparations for it, have great aspects also. But it’s too easy to lose all sense of what we are actually celebrating and recalling.
07 December 2019. Saturday of Advent, Week 1
When Jesus saw the crowds he had compassion for them because they were harassed and dejected, like sheep without a shepherd….
06 December, 2019. Friday of Advent, Week 1
The two blind men repeating their petition invites us to keep on praying for what we need….
05 December, 2019. Thursday of Advent, Week 1
Jesus warns that all of us will at some time face the storms of life, and he wants to help us survive them…
04 December, 2019. Wednesday of Advent, Week 1
On a hillside near the Sea of Galilee, he heals all who need healing, restoring speech to the dumb, mobility to the lame, sight to the blind….
03 December, 2019. Tuesday of Advent, Week 1
The spirit of the Lord will rest upon the stump and the roots of Jesse, and the people of God will bloom again…
02 December, 2019. Monday of Advent Week 1
The centurion’s faith is an innspiring example for us all to follow…
Presider’s Page for 1 December (First Sunday of Advent)
The season of Advent begins today. During the next 24 days we will look forward in hope. We will watch for the end times, when Christ will come in glory, Christ whose birthday we will celebrate very soon.
01 December, 2019. First Sunday in Advent
The coming of the Christ was and is the best of good news, a gift beyond imagining…
30 November, 2019. St Andrew, apostle
God’s call in our own lives is perhaps not all that different to how he called Andrew and Simon. We can be called to change from one lifestyle to another, to go beyond…
29 November, 2019. Friday of Week 34
This strange, apocalyptic message predicts the new heavens and the new earth. Weird as the vision may seem to us, our world will blossom…
28 November, 2019. Thursday of Week 34
St Mark links the fall of Jerusalem with the end of the world, but Luke separates these two events. Writing after Jerusalem’s destruction, he knew that …
27 November, 2019. Wednesday of Week 34
The Greek word for patience (hypomoné) suggests consistency and dependability. The ideal pervades today’s gospel…