Tag Archive for ‘Jesus’
Tuesday 25 August
1.Thessalonians 2:1-8; Ps 139; Matthew 23:23-26 Give service How well Jesus understood people. How we can be misled by appearances, the rituals, the rules about the how to live Godly lives, while overlooking the reality: to love one another, to help each other, to engage with God in our hearts, to love him even when […]
Monday 24 August
St Bartholomew, Apostle Apocalypse 21:9-14; Ps. 145; John 1: 45-51 Share the love One of our responsibilities, having encountered Jesus, is to tell other people about him. We need to find ways to reveal him to them in ways they will understand or they will wonder if anything good can come out of listening to […]
Friday 21 August
ST PIUS X, POPE Ruth 1:1,3-6,14-16,22; Ps 146; Matthew 22:34-40 Love God and your neighbour There’s no doubt – sometimes it’s difficult to feel any neighbourly charity. Loud parties, rubbish that doesn’t get disposed of, cheeky children, bossy know-alls, the borrowers that never return … It can be convenient to assume Jesus wasn’t talking about […]
Monday 17 August
Judges 2:11-19; Ps. 106; Matthew 19:16-22 Give yourself to God What do I value most? My relationship with God, or something else? Do I try and make deals with God, hoping he’ll forgive my heart being occupied elsewhere if I keep the commandments? Jesus wants us to abandon ourselves to him – to let go […]
Saturday 15 August
Joshua 24:14-29;Ps 16; Matthew 19:13-15 Love the children One of the loveliest sights at many parish masses is when the children come up for their blessing. Some run to the priest, some are carried by their parents or taken by older brothers and sisters. Some are shy, some want to chat … and we all […]
Tuesday 11 August
ST CLARE Deuteronomy 31:1-8; Canticle Deut.; 32: 1-12,Matthew 18:1-5, 10, 12-14 Become like a child Jesus’s response to the question “who is the greatest in heaven” is typical of his teaching: to become great you must become humble. He explains children’s dependence, humility, trustfulness and innocence are very dear to God – and as such, […]
Sunday 9 August
1Kings 19:4-8; Ps 34 Ephesians 4:30-5:2; John 6:41-51 The Living Bread The Jews were confused – what did Jesus mean when he said he was the living bread that could give them eternal life? It sounded very strange and wrong to them. But (as Pope Francis pointed out recently), people have another hunger for life, […]
Thursday 6 August
THE TRANSFIGURATION OF THE LORD Daniel 7:9-10,13-14; Ps 97; Peter 1:16-19; Luke 9:28-36 Become transfigured In a homily Bishop Anastasius of Sinai said “Jesus goes before us to show us the way, both up the mountain and into heaven, and — I speak boldly — it is for us now to follow him with all […]
Sunday 2 August
Exodus 16:2-4,12-15; Ps 78; Ephesians 4:17,20-24; John 6:24-35 Bread of Life There are probably numerous sorts of hunger. We eat meals at various times of the day to satisfy our physical craving for food. There is also spiritual hunger, and because he was fully human, Jesus realised the depths we plumb when we experience spiritual […]
Tuesday 28 July
Exodus 33:7-11,34:5-9,28, Psalm 103, Matthew 13:36-43 Bless the Lord, o my soul! Today’s psalm is a song of praise between two readings about spiritual formation. The first concerns God’s instruction to Moses and in the second Jesus explains parables to his disciples. Let us sit with this bridging psalm and make it a prayer of […]
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