Once again, we are in a position where we cannot physically come together to worship. However, it does not stop us from praying collectively, and our constant faith in God In today’s Gospel, we hear about the story of Lazarus. The name Lazarus means “God is my help” which connects to the today’s situation where… Read more
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Homily – 4th Sunday of Lent
4th Sunday of Lent 22 March 2020 At this time we struggle to understand the impact the Corona Virus will have on our parish, our community, our country and even our faith. Our readings today help us to realise that we need to have faith and to live in the light of our Lord…. Read more
GOD’S GRACE
I receive many of my thoughts and ideas for my articles from the reflections booklets I read each day. A reflection that has taken my interest was called “Guided with Grace.” In the story a mother reflects on how her son as given extra time to finish an exam. In so doing, he then… Read more
Cana
The wedding feast of Cana makes us aware of the time line in the lives of the Holy Family. There is no mention of Joseph, Mary has been invited and Jesus is there with his disciples. So Jesus is now in his ministry but has not worked any miracles. We are not given many conversations… Read more
They (we) opened their treasures
Recently we celebrated the feast of the Epiphany. While sourcing through some homily notes I read something by Fr Flor McCarthy SDB. A key aspect of the Epiphany was the gifts the Magi were bringing to the Christ child. Fr McCarthy says that we all come (in any situation) learning gifts – gifts wrapped up… Read more
Our Ministry of the Spirit
These are words that we hear and use in the Church that sometimes need to be defined and looked at again maybe to see if they still have that original meaning and understanding. I think of here the word minister. We call the clergy – ministers, but we also use it for the laity and… Read more
The Remedy for Jealousy
This was the title of a short reflection I read recently. If we were to give our own definition of the remedy, the obvious one would be just don’t do it! But it is not as easy as that. We all get caught up in it to some degree at different times of our lives…. Read more
BLINK AND THINK …. OF GOD?
We all seek ways of strengthening our relationship with God. We will do this through prayer as communication is our human way of developing any relationship. In our everyday relationships, we even have special or pet names that we use when addressing that special person. We often do this by shortening someone’s Christian name. I… Read more
YOU’LL GET BACK MORE THAN YOU GAVE
Recently the Sunday readings had two stories of the poor widows. One told the story of Elijah asking the widow to give up her last piece of bread that she and her son were to have before they would both die. Elijah said give me some and God will look after you. She did and… Read more
LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE
Some time ago, I read a reflection with the above title. It went on to explain how important the first seven seconds are when we greet someone. It gave an interesting example of how powerful it is. It says when we are in the dark, we see the light before we see the carrier of… Read more
