Reflection & Dialogue: Joy of Christian believing, and loathing on its rejection It is worth paying attention to Paul’s words as we have them in the Entrance Antiphon for today’s …
ReflectionsReflection: December 13 2020 (B) Third Sunday of Advent
ReflectionsReflection December 6 2020 (B) Second Sunday of Advent
Reflection. The readings give ample occasion for reflection. In Isaiah we have a vision given to a particular people at a particular point in time, but in content quite independent …
ReflectionsReflection November 29 2020 (B) First Sunday of Advent
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 …
ReflectionsReflection: November 22 2020 (A) Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe
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 …
ReflectionsReflection: November 15 2020 (A) Thirty-third Sunday of the Year
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 …
ReflectionsReflection November 08 2020 (A)– (A) Thirty-Second Sunday of the Year
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 …
ReflectionsReflection: November 1 2020. All Saints
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 …
ReflectionsReflection: October 18 2020 (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 …
ReflectionsReflection: October 11 2020 (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 …
ReflectionsReflection: October 4 2020 (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 …