Posts Categorized: Reflections

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

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

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

In one of my reflection books there is the title, ‘At home with Jesus’. I can look at this from a relational point of view and ask the question if I am comfortable with Jesus in our relationship.  Otherwise I can reflect on what other ideas come to mind when I see the word ‘home’…. Read more

We often use the phrase ‘renew’ to explain something we have to do. It could be to renew our license or maybe something comes in the post with the word renewal.  It is basically telling us that we need to follow this up so as to start again. We use the word conversion as another… Read more

Paddling Home I am a firm believer that the Word of God is alive and active. In other words, if we allow it, it will ‘hit’ us at where we are at in our lives. God knows exactly what we need in a given situation. I was reading a daily reflection and it was based… Read more