14th Sunday Reflection
At that time, Jesus spoke out and said, “I give you fullest thanks, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you hid these things from the wise and sagacious and revealed them to infants;...
Author: Fr John Allen Green OFM
13th Sunday Reflection
Whoever cherishes father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever cherishes son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And whoever does not take up his...
12th Sunday Reflection
Caught in the embracing gaze of the beloved, I am surprised to find my own woundedness reflected in the suffering of the other. In the bloodied heart of the other’s suffering, I become blinded;...
Feast of Corpus Christi Reflection
In Christ our contemplation focuses on the central point of time and space; as we extend our arms and our being in this union, we touch not only the past and the future but...
Trinity Sunday Reflection
Control is wrenched from our fingers and we strike out in anger. In Plato’s darkened cave of our minds we also gnash our teeth like the Pharisees as we shout “propaganda and heresy”, and...
Pentecost Sunday Reflection
The wind blows where it wishes. You hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit. (John3:8)...
The Ascension Of The Lord Reflection
But the eleven disciples went into Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus appointed them, “And seeing him they prostrated themselves; but some doubted. And, approaching, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “All power in heaven...
6th Sunday of Easter Reflection
Thirty years ago I was travelling with a group of friends returning from celebrating an evening Mass in Edenvale, Johannesburg. I was travelling at about 80 km/h down Langermann drive, a main arterial route...
5th Sunday of Easter Reflection
“God always begins with women, always, they open ways. They don’t doubt: they know; they have seen Him; they have touched Him. They have also seen the empty sepulchre… Today also, in face of...
4th Sunday of Easter Reflection
We have entered into the silence of unknowing, replacing the brutish human chain of productivity for a new opportunity. In the silence of our monster machines to listen and to observe; to use our...
3rd Sunday of Easter Reflection
God is angry, and so am I. God is righteous and therefore God’s anger is just and righteous. The Jewish Scriptures abounds in images of God’s anger and wrath. So often I align myself...
Divine Mercy, 2nd Sunday of Easter Reflection
In a single instant, the world of Thomas is thrown upside down. Touching the wounds of the Christ, all the teachings, all the structures, all the heritage of the generations, and all the heavy...
