His name Mattija (“gift of Jahweh”) was given to him by Jesus when calling him as an apostle, but he brought with him from his earlier profession a gift for clear and orderly presentation of the story of Jesus

Because of his obviously high regard for women, Luke’s Gospel is sometimes called The Gospel of Women. Today’s summary of the Lord’s ministry is idyllic, like a glorious lap of honour when Jesus was winning everyone for the kingdom of God…

We would not intrude on a meal unless we are invited. Yet this woman intrudes without invitation. She did so because she desperately wanted to come near Jesus and show him a service of hospitality and love…

Christians are meant to dance to Jesus’ tune. The idea of dancing to someone else’s tune usually has negative overtones. But as followers of Jesus we should attune our ears to his rhythms

Widows were the most financially and socially vulnerable group in the ancient world, where women had little personal agency. Without their husbands, they had to depend on their children, particularly their sons, to provide for them…

The centurion recognised the life-giving power of Jesus’ word. His remarkable faith is praised and declared to be greater than any faith his own people had shown in Jesus…

How can we glory in the cross where thieves, slaves and criminals were executed and onto which He was nailed, led like a lamb to the slaughter? It is because this crucified Jesus has become our lifegiver…

Taking the plank out of our own eye means being more attentive to our own failings than to those of others. Often we do not see clearly enough to understand what is really going on in the other..

We are asked for more than just giving with a view to receiving. Ideally, love has no self-seeking in it, just as God loves us. God is good even to the ungrateful and the wicked…

How can people be happy if they are poor, hungry or in mourning? How can people who have their fill of everything be called unfortunate? These pronouncements go against how we normally see life…

1st Reading: Colossians 2:6-15 Spiritually, baptism “buries” us with Christ and raises us to live in and with him As you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, continue to live your lives in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving. See to…

Jesus’ arrival in the synagogue gave hope to the man with the withered hand, in spite of the hostile comments of others. And hope was not disappointed…

One Sabbath the hungry disciples were blamed for “harvesting” on the sabbath. When walking through cornfields they were plucking and chewing on ears of grain, a anyone might do.. Jesus defends their freedom and claims authority over the Sabbath..