19th November. Wednesday of Week 33.
Preparing for the Hereafter: The vision in the Book of Revelation invites us to let our religious experiences flood over us, like the roar of many waters, the flashing of thunder and the flaming of torches.
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3rd November. Monday of Week 31.
The Quality of Mercy
In general, people live by the Quid pro Quo principle, of looking after our friends and paying our lawful debts, and once in a while giving something to charity. We like to think that people should get what they deserve. But Jesus seems to require a bit more than that from his true friends….
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2nd November. Commemoration of All The Faithful Departed
The Halloween combinatrion of All Saints Day and All Souls Day, reminds us of the reality of death and life after death. These days are a sad reminder that our bodies will one day give out. Somewhere, sometime, sooner or later, we will experience the startling reality of death. Then what? Is it all over for the individual? Will there be no more love, no more joy, no more laughter? Our faith points to a larger horizon..
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1st November. Saturday. Solemnity of All Saints
Images of the World to Come
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31st October. Friday of Week 30
While at dinner, Jesus ignored the Sabbath curfew and cured a man from dropsy, which scandalised some…
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30th October. Thursday of Week 30
Love will eventually win out
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29th October. Wednesday of Week 30
How narrow is that door that leads to life?
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28th October. Tuesday. The Apostles Simon and Jude
First Reading: Ephesians 2:19-22 (God has appointed apostles so that his people’s needs will be served.) So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God, built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the…
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27th October. Monday of Week 30
Above all, to be a healer
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Presider’s Page for 26 October (Ordinary Time 30)
There’s a reminder of the two great commandments in today’s celebration: we are called to love God and our neighbour: friend, visitor and stranger alike.
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26th October. Thirtieth Sunday
First Reading: Exodus 22:10-16 Part of the Sinai commandments is the fairness they should show each other in practical matters When someone delivers to another a donkey, ox, sheep, or any other animal for safekeeping, and it dies or is injured or is carried off, without anyone seeing it, an oath before the Lord shall…
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26th October. Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Doing justice in love
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25 October. Saturday of Week 29
Collegial unity in the Church
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24 Oct. Friday of Week 29
A Kairos to be Seized
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23 Oct. Thursday of Week 29
A Passionate Heart
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22nd October. Wednesday of Week 29
Getting ready for his Return
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21st October. Tuesday of Week 29
All meant to form one, big human family
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20 October (Monday, Week 29)
The weakness of the Well-off
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Presider’s Page for 19 October (Ordinary Time 29)
Mission Sunday is celebrated today. Its theme is “That we may have life…” We come to the source of life and pray that the life of Christ might be in us and in all of humankind.
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19th October. Twenty-Ninth Sunday
Rendering to Caesar