Second Sunday in Advent Reflection
Deep within our ancestry there lies a need to gather, to hoard, clinging to our possessions and even to people. This need translates also into our epistemology and the way we see the world:...
Author: Fr John Allen Green OFM
First Sunday of Advent Reflection
A time to breathe, a time to put aside our grievance, a time to let go, and a time to prepare. The years flow together and all the many preparations we have made; preparations...
Feast of Christ the King Reflection
Paradox and contradiction confound us, unsettle us … set of teeth on edge; enrages us to destroy any image that contradicts my own banner. We want to be on the leader board, we want...
Thirty Third Sunday Reflection
Truth is hard to bear! Yes, Jesus, the truth does set us free; but we also know from experience that first, that truth is going to P … us off! The truth of the...
Thirty-Second Sunday In Ordinary Time Reflection
This is truly an awesome aspiration; called to the perfection of holiness as children of the resurrection. This holiness is participation and reflection of God who is Love. The desert fathers and mothers emphasised...
The Feast of All Saints Reflection
The other disciple also went into the tomb and saw the cloth which had covered Jesus head lying nearby, neatly folded….and he believed! Why did he believe when he saw this cloth neatly folded?...
Feast of All Souls Reflection
Preparing For Lord; Making Myself Ready This is the time and now is the hour of great upheaval within the world, within the church, within communities as also within all Franciscan entities around the...
30th Sunday in Ordinary Time Reflection
The eyes of Love can only see with Mercy and the acts of Mercy are compassion and forgiveness. When we gaze on our beloved, we do not compare, there is no judgement and how...
29th Sunday in Ordinary Time Reflection
What a spine chilling question, “when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?” Add this question to Jesus astonishment and sorrow when the people from his home town lacked faith...
28th Sunday in Ordinary Time Reflection
We hear the groaning! With creation, we share a collective wound. All joy is gone and we feel that something important has gone, something has been lost. We still live the same life, perhaps...
27th Sunday in Ordinary Time Reflection
The true nemesis of faith is not doubt, but pride. In the novel by John Updike, reworking the themes of “The Scarlet Letter”, we encounter Roger Lambert, a jaded, and debauched theology professor who...
26th Sunday in Ordinary Time Reflection
Jesus is speaking to the Pharisees; an opportunity and an invitation. But Jesus also predicts that they do not have the capacity to hear, to see, or to understand. They have been given everything,...
