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: November 1 2023. All Saints

Reflection: October 29 2023 (A) Thirtieth Sunday of the Year
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: October 15 2023 (A) Twenty-Eighth Sunday of the Year
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: October 8 2023 (A) Twenty-Seventh Sunday of the Year
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 …

Reflection: 01 October 2023 (A) Twenty-Sixth Sunday of the Year
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 September 24 2023 (A) Twenty-Fifth Sunday of the Year
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: September 17 2023 (A) Twenty-Fourth Sunday of the Year
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: September 10 2023 (A) Twenty-Third Sunday of the Year
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 September 03 2023 (A) Twenty-Second Sunday of the Year
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 August 27 2023 (A) Twenty-First Sunday of the Year
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 …