Palm Sunday Reflection
The act of redemptive and healing love becomes our Rosetta stone for the Jesus event. Let us endeavour to refrain from interpreting the narrative through our familiarity. Rather than money, it is control and...
Author: Fr John Allen Green OFM
Fifth Sunday in Lent Reflection
Who am I? To be called by my name, to be known, this is the act of love, an intimate caress that carries us beyond and through death into resurrection. This truly is...
Fourth Sunday in Lent Reflection
These are the elite, students of the law, teachers of the prophets and the oral traditions of the people; they see, they know, they understand, and therefore they pass judgment! It is in these...
Third Sunday in Lent Reflection
Our journey crossing the desert with Robert Wicks continues on this third Sunday in Lent. Today we are called to the epiphany of wonder and awe, to sit at the edge of mystery and...
Second Sunday in Lent Reflection
Jesus takes Peter and James, and his brother John, and privately leads them up to a high mountain by themselves. And he was changed in form before them… (Mathew 17:1-2) Silence is the springboard...
First Sunday in Lent Reflection
Struggle can either form us, or it can deform us. We all know what it means to live in a world that is anxious, fearful, under great stress and endlessly driven. In our families...
Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Reflection
But: such a small word, yet packed was so much power. Jesus uses this power today to raise our eyes from our navel-gazing to a higher level of that new horizon within the Kingdom...
Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Reflection
Parents take delight in the achievements of the children. When we realise as parents or grandparents that these children have become good people, our hearts soar and our joy is complete. When a teacher...
Fifth Sunday In Ordinary Time Reflection
All of us can live but we cannot live without hope. You cannot look to the future if you do not first know how to value yourselves, if you do not feel that your...
Presentation of the Lord Reflection
‘Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel; and for a sign which shall be spoken against; Yea, a sword shall pierce through your own soul also,...
Third Sunday of the Year Reflection
The tribe of Zebulun derived its money from its ports and access to the sea. It helped support the tribe of Issachar, where the most important scholars of the Israelites were originally lived. The...
Second Sunday of the Year Reflection
And when the Advocate comes he will prove the world wrong concerning sin and concerning righteousness and concerning judgment… John 16:8 Fast forward, and even this same John the Baptist gets it wrong, doubting...
