Weekly News 31/08/25 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year C Humble behaviour is the mark of the Christian, as it always was the mark of someone “in favour with the Lord.” In the Gospel, we see Jesus watching the Pharisees: it’s almost amusing to picture them shuffling for the best places, the polite “after you”s to put […]
Weekly News 24/08/25 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
21st Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year C It’s probably a nightmare we all share – being locked out of the house, the sales, the big match, missing the train, the boat, the plane, whatever, and having to watch the crowds that have got inside, while we can do nothing. Complacency is what leaves us […]
Weekly News 17/08/25 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
20th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year C When we consider the Christian life, we often think in positive terms: peace, light, joy, goodness, life. And yet, as the Scriptures remind us today, that Christian life must be lived in the midst of a world which is filled with more negative terms: division, distress, cruelty […]
Weekly News 10/08/25 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
19th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year C Vigilance: we wait for glory or ruin, salvation or disaster. This is the choice that faces the Christian each and every day, as we wait for the Lord to return, as he promised he would. We often live our lives leaving such things to a distant, shadowy […]
Weekly News 03/08/25 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
18th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year C Today we contemplate a great truth about our life: you can’t take it with you. The old phrase “There are no pockets in a shroud” is what we confront today, in the preaching of both Ecclesiastes and the Lord Jesus. What Jesus makes us think about, however, […]
Weekly News 27/07/25 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
17th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year C When we see the child in the sweet shop nagging and moaning at mum or dad for something, we probably don’t think of it as a model of our prayer lives! And yet, if we take the word of God seriously today, that is exactly what our […]
Weekly News 20/07/25 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
16th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year C Sacred Hospitality is our theme: as the letter to the Hebrews says: “remember always to welcome strangers, for by doing this some people have entertained angels without knowing it.” True hospitality lies in two things: first the welcome, encouraging the stranger to enter the house and be […]
Weekly News 13/07/25 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
15th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year C Both first reading and Gospel today invite us to be “down to earth” about the Law of God. It’s very easy to become an “expert in religion” – knowing all the right answers, remembering all the right quotes, and so on. But for Moses and for Jesus, […]
Weekly News 6/07/25 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
14th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year C The link between the First Reading and Gospel is not immediately apparent today, until you look at the “headings” which are always chosen “to make the connection between readings of the same Mass clear.” (Introduction to the Lectionary n.123.) The “headings” present us with a simple picture […]
Weekly News 29/06/25 Saints Peter and Paul, Apostles
Saints Peter and Paul, Apostles Peter and Paul are the two great heroes of the Apostolic Age. Peter for leading the first Christian communities and binding them in unity, a role that springs from his profession of faith in Caesarea Philippi, and Paul for travelling throughout the Roman Empire as the Apostle to the Gentiles, […]