Thursday of the 5th Week of Lent Gen 17:3-9Jn 8:51-59 “You shall no longer be called Abram; your name shall be Abraham...” Every year during Easter, our parish confirms about a dozen adults into the Catholic faith. In the run up to this, they spend 9 months learning about being a Catholic and take on... Continue Reading →
6 April, Wednesday – On Discipleship
Wednesday of the 5th Week of Lent Dan 3:14-20,24-25,28John 8:31-42 “If you make my word your home, you will indeed be my disciples...” The thing about being authentic to something is that at some point, your convictions will be tested. It’s only when you are put under duress that you discover the true nature of... Continue Reading →
28 March, Monday — Simple Faith, A Faith beyond Crisis
Monday of the 4th Week of Lent Isa 65:17-21Jn 4:43-54 “So you will not believe unless you see signs and portents!” It is usually easy to take someone familiar for granted. Whether it be a long time friend, family or relative. It is as the gospel reading tells us today: For Jesus himself testified that... Continue Reading →
1 March, Tuesday — the Rat Race
Brothers and sisters in Christ. Today, we are blessed to welcome Gerard Francis, who describes himself as always and forever a student…thirsting to learn but who has evolved to not just academic pursuits but also to learn about being a more compassionate and loving person. Gerard is a cradle Catholic who attends the parish of the Church... Continue Reading →
18 February, Friday — Best Efforts
Friday of Week 6 in Ordinary Time Jas 2:14-24,26Mk 8:34-9:1 Faith is like that: if good works do not go with it, it is quite dead. How much is enough? When Jesus says, “Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me”, where do we draw the line and say, “This... Continue Reading →
11 February, Friday — Opening Up To the Lord
11 Feb – Memorial for Our Lady Of Lourdes; World Day of Prayer for the Sick Today is an optional memorial for Our Lady of Lourdes. The apparitions concerned began on Feb 11, 1858, when St. Bernadette Soubirous, then a 14-year-old peasant girl from Lourdes admitted, when questioned by her mother, that she had seen... Continue Reading →
1 February, Tuesday – Salvation is Offered to All
Tuesday of Week 4 in Ordinary Time 2 Sam 18:9-10,14,24-25,30-19:3 Mk 5:21-43 "My daughter, your faith has restored you to health; go in peace and be free from your complaint." Continuing with the salvation story from yesterday’s gospel concerning the demoniac, Jesus continues with his healing touches in the two ladies he encountered today --... Continue Reading →
3 January, Monday — Fully lit, fully alive!
Monday after Epiphany Sunday 1 Jn 3:22-4:6Mt 4:12-17,23-25 Whatever we ask God, we shall receive… When I was much younger, I believed, at one stage, that the deeper my belief and faith in God, the more likely I was to receive what I wanted. Where did I learn this from? Well.. firstly, from some other... Continue Reading →
27 December, Monday — Seeing is believing…
Dec 27 – Feast of St. John, apostle, evangelist St. John, also known as the ‘beloved disciple’ of Jesus, was the son of Zebedee and Salome, brother of St. James the Great, and was called one of the Sons of Thunder. Before becoming Jesus’ disciple, he was already a disciple of St. John the Baptist,... Continue Reading →
8 December, Wednesday — Total and Absolute
Dec 8 – Solmenity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary On this and the following eight days, the Church celebrates, with particular solemnity, the immaculate conception of the ever-blessed Virgin Mary who, from all eternity, was chosen to be the daughter of the heavenly Father, the spouse of the Holy Ghost, the... Continue Reading →
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