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:...
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Priest Hopes New Book Will Help Homilies
Dominican Father Joseph Falkiner (pictured) was motivated to write a book of reflections on the Sunday readings for the coming year by positive feedback received over the years from many people, including priests who...
All Of Life Should Be Journey Toward God
By Carol Glatz – Jesus invites everyone to always go to him, which, Pope Francis said, also means no longer making life revolve around oneself. “What direction is my journey going? Do I only try...
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...
Pope: Jesus’ Saving Love is Real, Concrete
Jesus’ love for each person is a concrete love, a love that is addressed to each person “with their first and last name,” Pope Francis said. Celebrating Mass in the chapel of the Domus...
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...
Pope: Like Water, Christians Become Stagnant If Not Moving
By Junno Arocho Esteves – Christians can become stagnant if they do not have the crashing waves of hope moving in their lives, Pope Francis said. “Hope is this living in tension, always; knowing that...
Pope: Mind Your Own Business Each Day to Grow in Holiness
By Cindy Wooden – Too often Catholics know what is going on in their neighbour’s house but pay little or no attention to the normal spiritual struggles going on in their own hearts and souls,...
The Funeral Liturgy: Let Eulogies Be Heard
By Chris McDonnell – Liturgy is a cultured conversation, a public celebration, a relationship with each other and ourselves with God. We get used to the words and the pattern in which they are...
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...
