Reflections

The Bible in Dialogue with Questions of the Day: Beatitudes: Peace and Joy in believing. Reflection: All Saints. A Great cloud of witnesses. Irish tradition and, indeed Christian belief, has …

Reflection & Dialogue: Good example. Christian life requires mutual support In the second reading today, and in others places in his letters, Paul refers to members of his churches being …

Reflection & Dialogue: All welcome within the Church, but a wedding garment of grace called for. The Church likes to portray herself as an open church, open to everyone, irrespective …

Reflection & Dialogue: Fill your minds with everything that is noble. What St Paul has to say in today’s reading from the letter to the Philippians presents abundant material for …

In a poem in the Irish language, transmitted in folklore and in written tradition, in the course of an instruction to a young person beginning life’s course, among other matters …

Reflection & Dialogue: Facing the future with vision and response to vision In today’s liturgical readings we have material for reflection on how to bring vision and response to this …

Reflection & Dialogue: Forgiveness; No Revenge. A Message for faith communities and civil society. The biblical and Gospel message, while primarily addressed to believers, may also have much to say …

Reflection & Dialogue: Christianity and the soul of a nation. Currently, when attempts are being made to decrease the influence of the Church in public life, or to impede it …

Reflection & Dialogue: Free from the Law, but under the Law of Christ. A question that has been with Christianity from the beginning, and is still with it, is the …

Reflection on the Second Reading. One must live with the mystery that is God. One lesson to be learned from the second reading, in which Paul is speaking to the …