The infant Christ recalls our basic humanity as created by God. He requires of his followers to give each person a chance to be truly who he or she is, respecting them as God’s image as truly as we ourselves are…

The officials who administered the Temple certainly had not given Jesus permission to drive out the merchants or disturb the business of the money changers and others who were making the temple a market-place…

John the Baptist was martyred, because “they did not recognize him, but treated him as they pleased.” This rejection of the Baptist would also become the experience of Jesus himself…

We are called dance to the music of Jesus, the music of his Spirit in our lives. If we tune in to the Lord’s rhythm and melody it can shape all that we say and do. That is our Advent calling in preparing for the birthday of Jesus…

When Jesus praised Johnthe Baptist it was for the people’s profit, to revive their memory of John’s ministry, which was in danger of being forgotten.

Advent is a good season to come before the Lord in our weakness and our tiredness, asking him to give us new strength, so that we can be channels of his life-giving strength to others…

On this feast day, Mary inspires us as the most favoured one, the mother of our Saviour, who enjoys the fullness of the grace of God…

They found a way through, by bringing their friend up onto the flat roof and letting him down through the tiles. Jesus was moved by their persistent faith. They model for us the community of faith…

We may be among the workers whom the Lord wants to send into his harvest to help those who are harassed and dejected. If so, then in sending us the Lord will also empower us for the work he is asking us to do.

The two blind men asked loudly and persistently for what they needed. While Jesus was walking past they followed him shouting, They don’t just come up to Jesus with a polite request but followed him shouting, “Take pity on us, Son of David.”

We can identify with the weather image in today’s gospel, “Rains came down, floods rose, gales blew.” Familiar, isn’t it? Apart from weather storms, we can also be struck by storms of a different kind, in our health, our family, our finances or our career.

To the poor man, God does not appear except in the form of bread and in the promise of work. The Eucharist inspires our humanity by a story of bread broken and shared for the life of the world.

He became a child and laid aside his divinity in order to communicate God to us. This thought may help in times like ours, threatened by Corona virus and when our beloved Church seems so diminished and ignored.

Jesus saw the two brothers, Simon and Andrew, making a cast with their net, going about their daily work, and he called out to them, “Follow me and I will make you fishers of people.” Immediately the two brothers left what they were doing and followed Jesus. The story is perhaps streamlined for the decision of these two brothers must have taken some time…