Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate

Weekly Reflections

Sunday Reflection Graphic Lent 5th Sunday 17th March

Gospel Reflection Sunday March 17th 2024 – Fifth Sunday of Lent

Gospel Reflection for Sunday March 17th 2024 | Fifth Sunday of Lent The 2004 film “The Passion of the Christ”, produced by Mel Gibson, was a powerful depiction of the last twelve hours of Jesus’ life – the hours of his suffering and death. Some people loved the movie, seeing in it the stark and...

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Sunday Reflection Graphic March 3rd 2024 Lent

Gospel Reflection Sunday March 3rd 2024 – Third Sunday of Lent

Gospel Reflection for Sunday March 3rd 2024 | Third Sunday of Lent Imagine for a minute going to Lourdes, or indeed any other site of religious pilgrimage throughout the world, and joining the throngs on visitors making their way to the shrine, Temple, Church or Holy Place to pray and offer sacrifice. Now imagine as...

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Sunday Reflection Graphic Second Sunday of Lent 2024 25th February

Gospel Reflection Sunday February 25th 2024 – Second Sunday of Lent

Gospel Reflection for Sunday February 25th 2024 | Second Sunday of Lent I think the well-known phrase, “the agony and the ecstasy” properly puts into context this week’s Gospel – Mark’s version of the Transfiguration story. Last week we were with Jesus in the desert where he was ‘tested by Satan’; this week we accompany...

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Gospel Reflection Sunday February 18th 2024 – First Sunday of Lent

For me, the trouble with Lent is that it happens every year!   By that, I mean that what should be an intense and focused preparation for the central feast of the Christian calendar becomes another routine we go through for forty days before we arrive at yet another Holy Week, just like all the others...

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Gospel Reflection Sunday February 11th 2024 – Sixth Sunday of Ordinary Time

Gospel Reflection for Sunday February 11th 2024 | 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time All of us in the last few years have come face to face with serious illness and death in the form of Covid-19. According to the World Health Organisation, a conservative estimate of three and a half million people have died from...

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Sunday Reflection Graphic February 4th 2024

Gospel Reflection Sunday February 4th 2024 – Fifth Sunday of Ordinary Time

Gospel Reflection for Sunday February 4th 2024 | 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time “Jesus of Nazareth, This is your Life….” … and he is presented with the red book of his life, as all around him relatives and friends applaud. If the TV show ‘This is Your Life’ had been around in the time of...

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Sunday Gospel Reflection Graphic January 28th 2024

Gospel Reflection Sunday January 28th 2024 – Fourth Sunday of Ordinary Time

Gospel Reflection for Sunday January 28th 2024 | 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time In Luke’s Gospel we hear the story of the Roman Centurian who pleads with Jesus to heal his gravely ill servant. Not being a Jew, he does not consider himself worthy of asking Jesus to do this for him, so he sends...

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Sunday Reflection Graphic 21st January 2024

Gospel Reflection Sunday January 21st 2024 – Second Sunday of Ordinary Time

Gospel Reflection for Sunday January 21st 2024 | 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time I learned as a teacher that it can be very disillusioning to begin a lesson with the words, “…remember what we said yesterday…” – disillusioning because the statement was usually met with a sea of blank faces indicating that what I thought...

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Sunday Reflection Graphic 2nd Sunday Ordinary Time 2024

Gospel Reflection Sunday January 14th 2024 – Third Sunday of Ordinary Time

Gospel Reflection for Sunday January 14th 2024 | 2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time If I was going to be stranded on a desert island and could only take one story from the Gospels with me, I think I would choose today’s Gospel as the story I would take. There is just so much going on...

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Gospel Reflection Sunday January 7th 2024 – Feast of The Epiphany of the Lord

Gospel Reflection for Sunday January 7th 2024 – Feast of The Epiphany of the Lord The very early communities of Christians had very little interest in the birth and childhood of Jesus. Their starting point was the Resurrection on Easter Sunday morning – an event which shocked and overwhelmed them, leaving them struggling to understand...

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