Friday of Week 12 in Ordinary Time 2 Kgs 25:1-12Mt 8:1-4 “…if you want to, you can cure me.” There’s something so humbling in the way the leper asks for help. By simply adding, “if you want to” or “if you are willing”, it is an act of surrender in itself. I find this sentence... Continue Reading →
25 June, Thursday — Humility Revisited
Thursday of Week 12 in Ordinary Time 2 Kg 24:8-17Mt 7:21-29 "…and what a fall it had!" Today's readings see the fall of the kingdom of Judah and the house built on sand. The message, at first glance, seems rather depressing; but I feel there is an important theme in these two readings -- the... Continue Reading →
23 June, Tuesday – The Narrow Gate: Conversion and the Interior Life
Tuesday of Week 12 in Ordinary Time 2 Kgs 19:9-11,14-21,31-35,36Mt 7:6,12-14 "Enter by the narrow gate, since the road that leads to perdition is wide and spacious, and many take it; but it is a narrow gate and a hard road that leads to life, and only a few find it." The gate is narrow... Continue Reading →
22 June, Monday – A Loving Call to Healing
Monday of Week 12 in Ordinary Time 2 Kgs 17:5-8,13-15,18Mt 7:1-5 "Why do you observe the splinter in your brother’s eye and never notice the plank in your own? How dare you say to your brother, 'Let me take the splinter out of your eye', when all the time there is a plank in your own?"... Continue Reading →
21 June, Sunday — What is my worth?
12th Sunday in Ordinary Time Jer 20:10-13Rm 5:12-15Mt 10:26-33 “…you are worth more than hundreds of sparrows.” One of the activities I usually run during Catechism lessons is something like the gameshow The Price is Right. For those of us who may have been born more recently, it is a gameshow where contestants are asked... Continue Reading →
20 June, Saturday — Let’s Sleep Well
Saturday of Week 11 in Ordinary Time 2 Chr 24:17-25Mt 6:24-34 “Each day has enough trouble of its own.” I have recently been watching a lot of short one-person skits on YouTube about Clair and Ann. Clair is this character who has firm work-life balance boundaries and refuses to work after working hours. One of... Continue Reading →
18 June, Thursday — Your Will Be Done On Me
Thursday of Week 11 in Ordinary Time Ecc 48:1-15Mt 6:7-15 “…your Father knows what you need before you ask Him.” When I first left my job to become a stay-at-home mum and study theology, I struggled. I had spent years working, building my career, contributing to big projects. Then suddenly, my days were filled with... Continue Reading →
17 June, Wednesday — Your Father Who Sees in Secret
Wednesday of Week 11 in Ordinary Time 2 Kgs 2:1,6-14Mt 6:1-6,16-18 "But when you give alms, your left hand must not know what your right hand is doing; your almsgiving must be secret, and your Father who sees all that is done in secret will reward you." There is a sentence in this passage that... Continue Reading →
16 June, Tuesday — Love, The Measure of Perfection
Tuesday of Week 11 in Ordinary Time 1 Kgs 21:17-29Mt 5:43-48 “…love your enemies…” Today’s gospel is oh-so-familiar to many of us. It often leaves me slightly uncomfortable, because the heart finds it hard to embrace what the head is registering as the words tumble out of the mouth of the priest, especially the line... Continue Reading →
15 June, Monday — Offering the Cheek
Monday of Week 11 in Ordinary Time 1 Kgs 21:1-16Mt 5:38-42 “…if anyone hits you on the right cheek, offer him the other as well” When my son was in Year 3, in a completely unprovoked incident, two boys accosted him during his lunch break at school and started shoving him. After they pushed him... Continue Reading →
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