Families can provide the nurture and love which promotes holistic well being and launches us into life. It is to our detriment as individuals and to the world when family living is dysfunctional according to the loving plan of God. Families can be the building blocks of a caring, well ordered and peaceful world where …
Today we celebrate the Holy Family of Jesus. In the Gospel we hear, “Three days later, they found him in the Temple, sitting among the doctors listening to them, and asking them questions; and all those who heard him were astounded at his intelligence and his replies.”(Luke 2: 46-47) Mary and Joseph had travelled to …
In the Gospel reading for the fourth week of Advent (last Sunday) we hear the words spoken by Elizabeth the cousin of Mary. “Of all women you are the most blessed, and blessed is the fruit of your womb.” (Luke 1.42) God’s plan for saving humanity depended upon Mary’s “YES” to God’s messenger, the angel …
In the Gospel for this Sunday, the third week of advent, we hear about the powerful proclamation of John the Baptist the last and greatest of the Old Testament prophets. “I baptise you with water, but someone is coming, someone who is more powerful than I am, and I am not fit to undo the …
“A voice cries in the wilderness: Prepare a way for the Lord, make his paths straight. Every valley will be filled in, every mountain and hill be made low.” These words from Isaiah are part of this Sunday’s Gospel and describe the mission of John the Baptist, the last and greatest of the Old Testament …
Advent comes from the Latin word Adventus meaning coming or arrival. The arrival of a Saviour has been predicted over millennia. Much can be found in the Old Testament especially in the book of Isaiah (7.14). Fantastic, unbelievable. This is the story of Christmas; that God our Creator sent to earth a Saviour Jesus who …
Who or what is king in your life – what is most important to you; money, power, a person, entertainment idol? For Christians, Jesus is King. This is what Catholics celebrated this Sunday and what the readings at Mass were about. Pilate asks Jesus, “Are you the king of the Jews?” Jesus replies, “Yes I …
Will the world last forever or will it come to an end and if so, when? Jesus speaks of the end of the world in the gospel this Sunday and in doing so, his second coming; “They will see the son of Man coming in the clouds with great power and glory; then too he …
In this Sunday’s Gospel we hear; “This poor widow has put more in than all who have contributed to the treasury; for they have put in money they had over, but she from the little she had has put in everything she possessed.”(Mark 12: 43 -44) Jesus had been watching those contributing the Temple treasury …
What do we live by? In the gospel reading for this Sunday, (Mark 12: 28 – 34) one of the Jewish leaders, a scribe, asks Jesus which is the most important commandment that we should live by. Jesus replies with the answer the scribe knew well. “Listen, Israel, the Lord our God is the one …