In under a fortnight’s time, the Easter Triduum will begin, on Holy Thursday evening. It will be a Triduum like no other, with no public celebrations because of the Coronavurus pandemic. But in our own homes, each of us can recall the great events that Easter remembers. We ask God’s help in the last 10 days of Lent.
Perhaps our faith community will eventually cross the river Jordan. Our deeper aim is not to win arguments but to win people for God…
Mary’s total YES to God’s call brought the divine mercy within our reach, with the grace of salvation…
The lame man could have waited forever and remained lame, if he was not alert for the coming of the Lord….
We may often feel that the Lord is ignoring our prayer, or does not answer in the way we had hoped. When that happens…
Traditionally, this Sunday is called Laetare Sunday, which means ‘a day for joy’ — although few will feel much joy this year, as the COV-19 epidemic draws ever nearer. But at this midpoint of Lent, it is traditional to honour mothers, treasuring those still with us and praying for those we have lost to death.
He is in our midst, he walks among us as the supreme healer, his hand ever ready to touch us, to take away our blindness…
Two men went into a church to pray, but the attitudes they brought in their hearts were quite different….
The first commandment calls us to love God with all our might, and the second to love our neighbour as ourselves. The interplay of those two loves is the vital point…
Saint Joseph serves as an inspirational patron for all parents who rear their offspring and then have to set them free to live their own lives…
Our Lord’s example tells us not to toss aside all the religious devotions of our past but neither are we to canonize them….
In the heart of Lent, we keep the feast of Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland. We mark the day by praising God the creator, who sustained Patrick in good times and bad, and who will sustain the Irish even in the face of coronavirus.
“Mise Pádraig, peacach ró-thuatach… Más lochtach féin mé, is mian liom fios a bheith ag mo bhráithre agus ag mo ghaolta cén saghas duine mé, agus dúil m’anama a thuiscint.”
Jesus’ vision of God is to be still embraced by us, because it is fundamentally “good news” for all who are willing to receive it.
Today’s readings about water and thirst remind us that this is a baptismal season. The holy water of baptism blesses and protects the faithful in every danger, even as the threat of the coronavirus bears down upon our world.
The vision of eternal life brought them hope and joy that made all their efforts and sacrifices worthwhile…
The parable of the Prodigal shows how God’s compassion is always at work bringing people from isolation to new life…
What may initially be repugnant to us can become a means by which God teaches and heals us…
“Mr Rich” lived in his privileged, well-guarded world and made no effort to understand or relieve the plight of the beggar at his gate…
In spite of what they promised, James and John failed to follow the one who came not to be served but to serve…
