Reflections

Reflection & Dialogue: The Holy Spirit guides the Church to be faithful to Christ’s teaching A theme running through the first reading and the Gospel reading today is the guiding …

Reflection & Dialogue: “Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have come to believe” Divine mercy Sunday I once heard a playwright being asked in a televisioin interview …

Reflection and Dialogue: The Risen Christ Centre of Christian life. Christian witness In the first reading Peter stresses that the apostles are attested witnesses to Jesus’ resurrection, with the task …

Reflection & Dialogue: The gentleness of Christ urges us on Today’s readings present ample material for reflection. For the greater part they are so clear that they hardly need to …

Reflection & Dialogue: The power of the Holy Spirit and of grace within us is stronger that our human weakness. Sometimes Jesus is accused of having ha d little understanding …

Reflection & Dialogue: Jesus and the Church the light of the world. Three clear points emerge from today’s liturgy and readings and they give rich material for reflection on Christian …

Reflection & Dialogue with Questions of the Day: God is love, but he cannot condone wrongdoing That God is love is beyond doubt. As the response in the Responsorial Psalm …

Reflection & Dialogue with Questions of the Day: Transfigured in Christ. Confirmed in the faith. (Note that for the commentary on the Gospel reading and for the reflection, those in …

Reflection & Dialogue with Questions of the Day: Message of Lent: The central Christian creed. Religion and Spirituality Today’s liturgy presents an opportunity to reflect on some central Christian truths. …

Martin McNamara, MSC B. Reflection & Dialogue with Questions of the Day:  Purity of heart and discretion in speech. A message for believers, for political rulers and others. The message …