Proverbs 2:1-9Matthew 19:27-29 My son, if you take my words to heart, if you set store by my commandments,tuning your ear to wisdom, and applying your heart to truth:yes, if your plea is for clear perception, if you cry out for discernment,if you look for it as if it were silver, and search for it as for buried treasure,you …
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Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mark 5:21-43 This Sunday the lectionary offers us two stories which have been woven together: the woman with the haemorrhage and Jairus’ daughter. Both are stories of risk. Both are stories of faith. Both tell us something about how Jesus comes to save us. Last week we saw Jesus ‘save’ his disciples from a storm …
Birthday of John the Baptist
Luke 1:57-66,80 What will this child turn out to be? I have always loved this line from Luke’s account of the Birth of John the Baptist. The reader knows just who he will turn out to be. And yet, I am always caught up in a feeling of expectancy and possibilities. An earlier line in …
The Visitation
Luke 1:39-56 ‘Mary set out and went as quickly as she could to a town in the hill country’. When Mary sets out to visit Elizabeth there’s a sense of urgency and excitement. By all accounts Mary’s journey to Elizabeth won’t have been easy. Whatever we imagine the terrain to be like, the journey was …
Corpus Christi (B)
Exodus 24:3-8 Hebrews 9:11-15Mark 14:12-16, 22-26 Today the Church lays before us a series of texts which tell us about an important part of our faith story. Each text tells us something about the love relationship of the covenant which bound our ancestors and the new covenant which binds us now. Each text mentions blood. This …
Trinity Sunday (B)
Deuteronomy 4:32-34,39-40Romans 8:14-17Matthew 28:16-20 The mystics believed that we are all born with a capacity for God (Capax Dei).St Augustine believed that this capacity makes it possible for the human person to be re-formed through God’s gracious gift. It has become common place for society to be described as ‘post Christian’ or as ‘secular’. While it …
Pentecost (B)
John 15:26-27,16:12-15 From the beginning of Lent on Ash Wednesday to the celebration of Pentecost, the Church has marked out a path for us to follow. We have walked in the wilderness with Israelites, fasted in the desert with Jesus, followed him as he taught and worked miracles, we have sat at the table in …
Saturday, Seventh Week of Easter
John 21:20-25 ‘If I want him to stay behind till I come, what does it matter to you? You are to follow me.’ We have come to the final chapter of John’s Gospel and perhaps have a sense of having made a long and sometimes meandering journey through the themes of Light, Life, Love and …
Friday, Seventh Week of Easter
John 21:15-19 Our Gospel texts during Eastertide have laid before us many themes. They weave in and out of each other and form a kind of fabric. Amongst the many themes, these stand out for me: Love, Glory, Life, Believe in Jesus and Truth. Today it is Love that is to be our focus as …
Thursday, Seventh Week of Easter
John 17:20-26 Father, I want those you have given meto be with me where I am,so that they may always see the glory you have given mebecause you loved me before the foundation of the world. Often in liturgy we find ourselves holding several time frames at once. We have celebrated the Ascension and now …