Fourth Sunday of Easter John 10:27-30 A local farmer grazes his sheep on our land. I asked him once if he named his sheep, he said, ‘No’. I asked him if the sheep ‘know’ him, he said ‘They know that I bring food.’ We can often romanticise Jesus’ words about being a shepherd and knowing …
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Saturday, Third Week of Easter
John 6:60-69 Then Jesus said to the Twelve, ‘What about you, do you want to go away too?’ Simon Peter answered, ‘Lord, who shall we go to? You have the message of eternal life, and we believe; we know that you are the Holy One of God.’ Often in liturgy we are holding several time …
Friday, Third Week of Easter
John 6:52-59 ‘He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me and I live in him.’ When we gather together to give thanks to the Father and to share bread and wine we make a statement about who we are as individuals and who we are as community. We receive Christ’s broken …
Thursday, Third Week of Easter
John 6:44-51 ‘Your fathers ate the manna in the desert and they are dead; but this is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that a man may eat it and not die.’ It’s worth reading the whole of the Bread of Life discourse (John 6:22-66) in one sitting to get a sense of …
Feast of the English Martyrs
Matthew 10:17-20 At baptism when we were anointed with chrism these words were said: ‘God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ has freed you from sin, given you a new birth by water and the Holy Spirit, and welcomed you into his holy people. He now anoints you with the chrism of salvation. As …
Feast of Saints Philip and James
‘I am the Way, the Truth and the Life’ If you Google this famous quotation you’ll get quite a few pictures of roads and paths. It is the easiest of the three concepts to illustrate. We know where we are with a clear path. When Jesus says he is the Way we have a reasonable …
Monday, Third Week of Easter
John 6:22-29 Today’s Gospel is the beginning of a long passage in which Jesus talks about himself as the ‘bread of life.’ We know at the outset that there will be confusion. Jesus is talking about much more than having physical hunger satisfied. Today I can’t get passed the first level of meaning of these …
Prayer and the Paschal Mystery
Here’s really helpful article by Sr Maria Boulding osb
Third Sunday of Easter
John 21:1-19 Simon Peter, do you love me? In English we have one word ‘love’ and it can mean a whole variety of things. If we want to be specific we have to qualify it. Greek has at least 7 words for love. Our passage from John’s Gospel uses two of these: agape and philia. …
Saturday, Second Week of Easter
John 6:16-21 In just 5 verses the writer of the Fourth Gospel has given us a window into a whole theological world. The story of Jesus walking on the water comes just after he had fed the 5,000. For the hearers of this Gospel the resonances with the Exodus story may well have been clear. …