Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate

Weekly Reflections

Gospel Reflection for Easter Sunday

Our journey through Lent is over, we have removed our purple cloths, we have decorated our churches and altars with flowers and we can now sing our Gloria and Alleluia with joy and celebration. The Lord is risen! The Easter gospel names three people: Mary Magdalene, Peter and the ‘disciple who Jesus loved.’ By not...

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Gospel reflection for Palm Sunday

As we celebrate Palm Sunday, our Lenten Pilgrimage takes a great dramatic turn. Jesus enters Jerusalem with his friends in high spirits and full of hope and the crowd on his side as they welcome with shouts of joy, ‘Hosanna in the highest, blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord’. This...

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Gospel Reflection for the 5th Sunday of Lent

The gospel called ‘The woman caught in adultery’ is one of the most powerful encounters anyone has with Jesus. The men drag this woman along the streets and throw her at the feet of Jesus. Can we even imagine how they have made her feel? How afraid, fragile and vulnerable is she? All she sees...

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Gospel Reflection for the 4th Sunday of Lent

When this gospel comes around every three years, there is the temptation to read and pray it too quickly because we are overly familiar with it; son leaves home, squanders his money, goes back home and his forgiven by loving parent. But there is so much more to it than this. This is a story...

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Gospel reflection for the 3rd Sunday of Lent

In our dealings and encounters with other people, we are often quick to dismiss them or even write them often when they don’t meet our standards or expectations. Thankfully this is not how God treats us. Just as God is love, so also God is patient. Time and time again, God offers us the opportunity...

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Gospel Reflection for the 2nd Sunday of Lent

The Transfiguration It is doubtful that any of us have had the sort of experience that those with Jesus had. While they were with him on the mountain, Jesus is changed and transformed. They are privileged to be given a glimpse of Jesus in all his glory. However, the voice they heard is very relevant...

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