Tag Archive for ‘life’
Friday 3 April
GOOD FRIDAY Isaiah 52:13-53:12; Ps 31; Hebrews 4:14-16,5:7-9, John 18:1-19:42 My servant shall justify many How can we ever comprehend the love of Jesus for us that saw him sacrifice his life for our sins? The horror of his suffering, the injustice of it, seems so unfair. Yet in love he gave his life so […]
Thursday 2 April
HOLY THURSDAY Exodus 12:1-8,11-14; Ps 116; 1 Corinthians 11:23-26; John 13:1-15 A model to follow Today we celebrate the gift of the Eucharist as seen in the Last Supper. Jesus breaks the bread and shares the cup which becomes his body and blood, the heart of our sacramental life. But the Gospel reminds us that […]
Guilt Free, At Last
“ What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge on it.” – Charles Dudley Warren, 1829-1900. American essayist, friend of Mark Twain. – My Summer in a Garden, 1871. My husband and I grew up in the Bronx, a northern borough of New York City. In our Kingsbridge section of […]
Monday of Holy Week. 30th March
Isaiah 42:1-7, Ps. 27, John 12:1-11 What does loving Jesus cost me? Spikenard, which is worth almost a year’s wages is a symbol on Pope Francis’ crest. Mary humbly lavishes the perfume on Jesus’s feet spreading fragrance everywhere. Catholic devotional life is meant to be explosive, in a sense subversive and countercultural, spreading the fragrance […]
Sunday 22nd March
5th Sunday of Lent Jeremiah 31:31-34, Ps. 51, Hebrew 5:7-9, John 12:20-33. The seed transformed. A seed seems insignificant and vulnerable, able to be blown by the wind. Fearfully we seek to protect our vulnerability. Yet Jesus calls for surrender. When a seed falls something miraculous happens; new life emerges from death. The seed is […]
Wednesday 18th March
St Cyril of Jerusalem Isaiah 49:8-15, Ps. 145, John 5:17-30 Jesus reveals the heart of the Father Isaiah gives perhaps the most tender prophecy in Scripture; “Does a mother forget her baby… even if these forget I will never forget you.” Jesus reveals the heart of the Father “who is the source of life” and […]
Friday 13th March
Hosea 14:2-10, Ps. 81, Mark 12:28-34 God desires that we bloom God could not make the Law simpler. Jesus encapsulates it in two sentences. But simplicity is not necessarily easy. God longs for us, healing our disloyalty, feeding us with finest wheat and honey, loving us with an intensity we barely comprehend. Grace falls like […]
Monday 9th March
St Frances of Rome 2Kings 5:1-15, Ps. 42, Luke 4:24-30 What are your expectations of God? Are you ever tempted to be like Naaman, dismissing the ordinary for the sensational or the simple for the grand? Our merciful God became vulnerable, small and unknown through the incarnation. He lived in a simple family with Mary […]
Sunday 8th March
3rd Sunday of Lent Exodus 20:1-17, Ps.19B, 2Corinthians 1:22-25, John 2:13-25 Talk with God about what anchors your life. We dislike rules, yet readily accept sports rules and consequences. Yet we resist the idea of God commanding us. Those who excel practice constantly and obey rules. The first three commandments stress relations with God. What […]
Friday 6th March
Genesis 37:3-4,12-13,17-28, Ps. 105, Matthew 21:33-43,45-46 Jesus the cornerstone Using easily understood imagery Jesus confronts the chief priests and elders. He quotes Psalm 118:22 about builders rejecting the cornerstone. It’s the first stone in a masonry foundation; all other stones align to it, so it positions the entire structure. Isaiah 28:16 states God is laying […]
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