Weekly News 25/11/24 Christ the King Year B
Christ the King – Year B Every time we complete the cycle of the liturgical year, there is a seamless blending into the new year: so, just as this week we hear of the King who is to come, next week, we begin a New Year and the Season of Advent by more meditation on […]
Weekly News 17/11/24 33rd Sunday Year B
The 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year B As always at this time of year, we begin to contemplate the end of the world a theme that carries us over next Sunday’s feast (Christ the King) and so into Advent. Such a contemplation is not gloomy or morbid: throughout the ages (and especially in […]
Weekly News 10/11/24 32nd Sunday Year B
The 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year B “God does not have favourites”, Saint Paul tells us, but God always makes a special place for the poor, and those whom society would push into second place. In the traditions of Israel God invited the people to have special care for the “widows and orphans” […]
Weekly News 03/11/24 31stSunday Year B
The 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year B Every priest, and indeed every Catholic, can sometimes find themselves in the position of being asked, “This religion of yours – what’s it all about, really, when you come down to it?” Our temptation might be to go on at length, which is when we should […]
Weekly News 27/10/24 30th Sunday Year B
The 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year B It’s often the case that the “values of the Gospel” contradict the “values of the World” – sometimes to the extent that the one is the exact opposite of the other. Today is a typical example: greatness and prominence, success and victory, these are goals that […]
Weekly News 20/10/24 29th Sunday Year B
The 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year B It’s often the case that the “values of the Gospel” contradict the “values of the World” – sometimes to the extent that the one is the exact opposite of the other. Today is a typical example: greatness and prominence, success and victory, these are goals that […]
Weekly News 13/10/24 28th Sunday Year B
The 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year B In today’s story of the rich young man, who comes to Jesus full of good intentions, there are some simple words that speak so clearly to our own age: when Jesus tells him to sell everything and give it to the poor, “his face fell at […]
Weekly News 06/10/24 27th Sunday Year B
The 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year B Today we tackle the issue of marriage and divorce; Jesus is asked an awkward question about the legality of divorce. He lays down very clearly that what God intends for marriage is what is found in Genesis (where the “two become one” for all time) rather […]
Weekly News 29/09/24 26th Sunday Year B
The 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year B There is a peculiar type of pettiness that will not allow someone to do what others do (even if or perhaps especially if they are good at it) because they aren’t part of the group, or club, or circle. Unless you wear the uniform, the badge […]
Weekly News 22/09/24 25th Sunday Year B
The 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year B The tone of the Gospel begins to grow darker: Jesus is now on his way to Jerusalem, where he will be arrested and killed. Despite this, both this week and next week, there is a lighter contrast in the children that Jesus welcomes and blesses. Perhaps […]