Palm Sunday Reflection
God is the great storyteller. Gods’ story is one that begins with the Word that speaks order out of the chaos, brings order out of disorder. When we gaze into the night sky, we...
Author: Fr John Allen Green OFM
Fifth Sunday in Lent Reflection
What’s in a Name? We all know the experience, hearing our name across a crowded noisy room. In the study of cognitive psychology this is known as the ‘cocktail party effect’. Someone mentions our...
Fourth Sunday in Lent Reflection
One single sip of God’s Mercy and our lives change for ever, but it is also possible to forsake God’s Mercy. We can block this Mercy, refusing the gift of Love, the gift of...
3rd Sunday in Lent Reflection
We live in a world of restless anxiety where much of our relationships are based on the commercialisation of love, the Babylon effect. Our cherished world of winners and losers bases integrity upon expediency,...
2nd Sunday in Lent Reflection
There is a pattern that we find in the life of Jesus that unfolds on the high places, those places where God was sought and the places of encounter. These high places are however...
First Sunday of Lent Reflection
Lent is a time to gain new strength, to free ourselves of our paranoia, our illusions and fears. This is why we follow Jesus on a journey into the wilderness, away from the noise...
Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time Reflection
From the soil of the earth, we find the roots of who we are in our family trees. Yet, is it possible for us to see ourselves as we truly are? Jesus calls on...
Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Reflection
We are pointing our finger the wrong way! Our inability to distinguish between wickedness and evil both in the individual and corporate sin causes much division, intolerance, hurt and suffering. Most of us can...
Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Reflection
The plan is perfect! The blueprints have been made and issued to the builders. But hold on Houston, we have a problem. Somehow history has moved on and time and space now occupy another...
Fifth Sunday of the Year Reflection
The suburb of Bertrams in the Johannesburg is what you would term a ‘rough neighbourhood’; there are gangs, drug lords, prostitutes and destitute squatters. It was here that I live and worked with...
Third Sunday in Ordinary Time Reflection
In Jesus the Christ we have the full revelation of God, God’s plan, God’s will and the nature and blueprint of all reality. God’s Word is revealed to us in the person of...
Second Sunday of the Year Reflection
At Cana it is Mary the mother of Jesus who is the one known and trusted in the wedding venue. She is the one who instructs the servant, “Do whatever he tells you.” We...
