Baptism of the Lord Reflection
As we look upon the life of Jesus we see total coherence; there is an alignment between will, intention, word and action. This is what it means to be beloved; for God to take...
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Ephiphany of the Lord Reflection
We live in a world full of mystery and paradox. Life, death, love, suffering and time itself move within our consciousness without having any apparent need of our cooperation or consent. Our articulation and...
Fourth Sunday in Advent Reflection
When last have you leapt for joy? We flick a switch and have light. We open a faucet and we have water. We dial a number on our smart phones and communicate with friends...
Third Sunday in Advent Reflection
Babylon changed things, many things. Like the air that we breathe, these many things are within the collective consciousness of Jewish history carried through into our Christian religion. This famous and beautiful city is...
2nd Sunday in Advent Reflection
A moment in time and in an instant everything changes; death, disease, accidents or that moment when we first recognise the love of our lives. Although it does and will continue to happen to...
First Sunday of Advent Reflection
Copy and paste… copy and paste; we keep telling the same stories, over and over again; everything that I have been taught to know; everything that validates my perceiving, my belief, my understanding, my...
33rd Sunday of the Year Reflection
There is a mystic moment that waits for each one of us; finds us; encounters and enfolds us. It is a moment in the cracks between the “now” and “then” that I impose on the memories of my awareness.
32nd Sunday of the Year Reflection
By Fr John Allen Green OFM The Woman’s Mite Cold and grey and miserable; the Gorbals is an area in the city of Glasgow, Scotland, on the south bank of the River Clyde. This...
Twenty Ninth Sunday of the Year Reflection
And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, approach him, saying to him, “Teacher, we wish that you would do for us whatever we might request of you.” And he said to them,...
Twenty-Eighth Sunday of the Year Reflection
Life is toil, and then we die! We recognise that our lives are filled so many diversions, so many urgent things that require my attention. Living from one pay check to the next...
Twenty-Seventh Sunday of the Year Reflection
By Fr John Allen Green OFM Gospel: Mark 10:2-16 – And Pharisees approached and tested him, asking him whether it is lawful for a man to divorce his wife. But in reply he said to...
Twenty-Sixth Sunday Reflection
Each one of us knows the enemy. Envy and jealousy are ignited by pride and vanity, stoked by selfishness and must eventually explode in anger which is displayed in many ways, from copious tears to kicking the dog.
