Reflections

 Reflection: Dialogue with Questions of the Day. Waiting for God. Samuel Beckett wrote the well-known play “Waiting for Godot”. What Becket had in mind by this title has for long …

Reflection and Dialogue with Questions of the Day Reflection. The readings can be taken in conjunction with part of the Preface for this day’s Mass: “You (holy Father) anointed Jesus …

Reflection: Watch. Keep awake. The End of the Liturgical Year; the End of Life and of the World. Prepared to render an account. Traditionally, at the end of the liturgical …

Reflection & Dialogue: Remember your last end. Be prepared to meet your God!. The last things, the particular judgment at death, and the call for preparedness for this are less …

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 …

Reflection & Dialogue: Having a personal knowledge of Christ In a poem in the Irish language, transmitted in folklore and in written tradition, in the course of an instruction to …

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 …