26th Sunday Reflection
Tax collectors and prostitutes; traitors and whores; Jesus often uses these people as examples against the purported righteousness, orthodoxy, and purity of the Pharisees. What is it...
Author: Fr John Allen Green OFM
25th Sunday Reflection
Jesus was a tradesman, by tradition a carpenter or a stonemason. Jesus would have known what it meant to stand with other tradesmen and labourers at the...
24th Sunday Reflection
“The gospel is profoundly scandalous, and until we hear at least a whisper of its scandal, we risk not hearing any part of it (Griffith, 1993, p....
23rd Sunday Reflection
We look upon an ancient culture and religion with intricate laws and traditions. This is a society of child brides and slavery, a society in which women...
22nd Sunday Reflection
An awakening reflection: The building rose into the heights, a veritable tower of Babel reaching to the heavens and beautiful to behold; shimmering white marble, a Taj...
21st Sunday Reflection
The Assembly Of The Beloved Community And Jesus, coming into the regions of Caesarea Philippi, questioned his disciples, saying, “Who do men say the Son of Man...
Assumption Of Our Mother Mary Reflection
Swirling shards of kaleidoscopic memories, the breath and the birthing of who I am as human, of family and friends, of teachers and lovers, of supporters and...
19th Sunday Reflection
Genesis, bringing order out of the chaos, and a call for us to remember, to return to our vocation, to be truly human; this is our project...
18th Sunday Reflection
Captured by the Russian army during World War II and accused of being a spy for the Vatican, Walter J. Ciszek, a Jesuit priest, spent twenty-three years...
17th Sunday Reflection
Each one of us will at some stage have to walk into the darkness, letting go of all that we cling to in this life. This is...
16th Sunday Reflection
The journey is inwards, returning to the cave of the heart. It is in the gloom and the darkness that we find our path back to the...
15th Sunday Reflection
Describing humanity and our existence as a clot of blood; deaf, blind, and unknowing may appear particularly cynical and cheerless. Yet, Jesus himself speaks of people’s hearts...
