Weekly News 13/04/25 Palm Sunday of the Lords Passion Year C
Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion – Year C We begin Holy Week with the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem: the King of Kings entering the Holy City. We hear this Gospel at the beginning of Mass and we greet Him with palms; then we take part in the passion reading covering the events of […]
Weekly News 06/04/25 Fifth Sunday of Lent Year C
Fifth Sunday of Lent – Year C There is a logical development in the readings this Sunday: in the Old Testament, God asks us to look forward to the “new deed he will do”, when he will put “water in the wilderness”; we then see the new deed, which Paul talks about, to be the […]
Weekly News 30/03/25 Fourth Sunday of Lent Year C
Fourth Sunday of Lent (Laetare Sunday) – Year C As today we hear the familiar parable of the Prodigal Son (or the Forgiving Father), the message is Reconciliation – the making new of relationships, the healing of past wrongs and the opening of ourselves to the “new creation”. This is just as the Israelites opened […]
Weekly News 23/03/25 Third Sunday of Lent Year C
Third Sunday of Lent – Year C “The man who thinks he is safe must be careful he does not fall.” This is the theme of this Sunday: it underlines the need for repentance, which is the focus of our Lenten journey in Year C. Jesus, in the Gospel, uses two recent events in order […]
Weekly News 16/03/25 Second Sunday of Lent Year C
Second Sunday of Lent – Year C Every year, on the Second Sunday of Lent, we hear about the Transfiguration of Jesus on the mountain top. Why? Jesus revealed his glory to the three apostles in order to strengthen them for the journey ahead – the journey to Jerusalem, Gethsemane and Golgotha. The same vision […]
Weekly News 09/03/25 First Sunday of Lent Year C
First Sunday of Lent – Year C As with each First Sunday of Lent the Gospel tells of Jesus’ temptation in the wilderness; as we begin the journey of Lent, during which we will consider our lives as members of the Church, we look to the example of Jesus when it comes to dealing with […]
Weekly News 02/03/25 Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year C We have many sayings about results being more important than promises, such as “the proof of the pudding is in the eating”. Today’s scripture readings are all about this – the ways in which our words and actions will reveal who we truly are. There is a […]
Weekly News 23/02/25 Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year C What is compassion? What is love? And how do we live them out in our own age? These are the questions that spring from the Gospel today. In many ways this is the hardest teaching Jesus offers us, because it goes against so much of what the […]
Weekly News 16/02/25 Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year C Life is often about picking our way through opposites – choices and decisions that surround every moment of every day: should I do this or that, choose this way or that way, and so on. Just as there are choices on either side, so there are opposing […]
Weekly News 09/02/25 Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year C We hear the call of another prophet this week – Isaiah. This introduces the Gospel, where we see Jesus calling his first disciples to follow him. Notice that the initiative is Jesus’: there is no application process or interview procedure! Notice also the way that Jesus calls […]