Reflections

Reflection & Dialogue: “The light of faith and questions of our own day” Today’s readings, and in particular the first reading and the gospel, invite us to reflect on belief …

Reflection & Dialogue: Prayer, faith, danger of addiction to wealth  Reflection. Prayer and faith. Today’s Sunday readings present an ideal opportunity of combining reflection and dialogue with modern life. The …

Reflection & Dialogue: Searching for the lost sheep and the prodigal son today It was once easy to identify “lost sheep” and have a ministry to them. They were lapsed, …

Reflection & Dialogue: Wakeup call for ethnic and culture Catholics As the Church grows in numbers in a country or community, when it experiences no opposition or persecution, and may …

 Reflection & Dialogue: The Values of the Kingdom The German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck (19th century) is often accredited with the saying that no nation could run its foreign policy …

 Reflection & Dialogue: For God’s kingdom tradition is not enough; response to the call of Jesus is required. In today’s gospel reading, as in many other places in the gospels, …

Reflection & Dialogue: The Church in dialogue with division. Reflection. Today’s readings give us rich material for reflection. We, present-day Christians, are heirs to a great cloud of witnesses. From …

Reflection & Dialogue: The theological virtue of faith Today’s second reading from the Epistle to the Hebrews which reminds us that “faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the …

From heaven the risen Christ continues to preach his Gospel. Two principles in the interpretation of the scriptures in the Church are: “distanciation” and immediacy. “Distanciation” is recognition of the …

B. Reflection & Dialogue: Recall to Prayer in a Secular Age Today’s Gospel reading presents an occasion to reflect on the place of prayer in our own age, mainly in …