Weekly Reflections
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...
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...
Gospel Reflection Sunday December 31st 2023 – Feast of the Holy Family
Gospel Reflection for Sunday December 31st 2023 | Feast of the Holy Family Parents reading this will easily remember the many milestones your children encountered as they grew. You will remember their first words, first tooth, first steps, first day at school, and so many other firsts of childhood. It was you who taught your...
Gospel Reflection For the Fourth Sunday of Advent and Christmas, December 2023
Gospel Reflection for Sunday December 24th 2023 | Fourth Sunday of Advent Let me begin with two quotes, from two different people with radically different backgrounds. Firstly, Mahatma Ghandi, Indian mystic and activist who said, “Love is the strongest force the world possesses, yet it is the humblest imaginable.” Secondly, Albert Einstein, possibly the greatest...
Gospel Reflection For the Third Sunday of Advent, 17th December 2023
Gospel Reflection for Sunday December 17th 2023 | Third Sunday of Advent During the week a reader commented: “I am surprised that people flocked to him for baptism and repentance. His reputation was not great!” That surprise is well founded because John the Baptist was not what we would call an ‘attractive’ person. From his...
Gospel Reflection For the Second Sunday of Advent, 10th December 2023
Gospel Reflection for Sunday December 1oth 2023 | Second Sunday of Advent Isn’t it interesting that the ‘Good News’ about Jesus does not begin with Jesus at all? Before we meet the central character in Mark’s story we must meet someone else, someone who is not just ‘great’, but is described by Jesus himself as...
Gospel Reflection For the First Sunday of Advent, 3rd December 2023
Gospel Reflection for Sunday December 3rd 2023 | First Sunday of Advent Over the years I have worked in several places which catered for visitors and therefore had important ‘Health & Safety’ regulations. One of the most important was fire safety, and at every check-in I reminded visitors that if they heard the fire alarm...
Gospel Reflection For Sunday 26th November 2023
Gospel Reflection for Sunday November 26th 2023 | Feast of Christ the King Jesus began his mission with the message, “Repent and believe. The Kingdom of God is near at hand.” How appropriate it is, then, that on this last Sunday of the year we hear in the Gospel of the final coming of that...
Gospel Reflection For Sunday 19th November 2023
Gospel Reflection for Sunday November 19th 2023 | 33nd Sunday in Ordinary Time All of us have noticed, I’m sure, how little we communicate with one another in ordinary, everyday life. It is more noticeable in cities than in towns or more noticeable in towns than in villages, but the trend is still there. At...
Gospel Reflection For Sunday 12th November 2023
Gospel Reflection for Sunday November 12th 2023 | 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time Imagine, if you can, that you are living in a time of great suffering and anxiety. You are part of a small group of Jews who followed Jesus of Nazareth and came to see him as the Messiah – the chosen one...