Weekly Reflection

In today’s Gospel, Jesus describes Himself in terms of gatekeeping. He states that He is someone who is known to the gatekeeper, someone who can be trusted. The gatekeeper recognizes Jesus and grants Him access into the sheepfold – and the sheep recognize His voice, they follow where He leads. Jesus is known and trusted. […]

Angry, dismayed, disappointed. These are all words that could be used to describe the two disciples travelling on the road to Emmaus whom we hear about in today’s Gospel. When they are joined by a stranger, they cannot understand how He does not know of all that has happened, particularly in relation to the death

St. John perfectly illustrates the truth in his Gospel, where he uses poetry and prose to tell the story of Jesus. Today we should not be too hard on Thomas, who will for ever be labelled “doubting” Thomas. Thomas has given us permission to have our doubts, but Peter and John are assuring us that

In today’s reading from the Acts of Apostles, we see Peter proclaiming to Cornelius and his household that Jesus is risen, and has been appointed by God to judge everyone, alive or dead. This same Jesus from Nazareth, anointed with the Holy Spirit and with power, who had been doing good, curing sick people and

Caiaphas wanted to eliminate Jesus as a problem. Pilate wanted to keep Caiaphas and the Jewish leaders quiet, and to avoid getting mixed up in their interminable religious disputes. At the same time he wanted to keep the people happy, and so to avoid the sort of popular unrest that might have got the governor

Martha and Mary nursed Lazarus thourgh his final illness, death and burial. The two sisters knew that they had sent an accurate message to Jesus, telling Him of the imminence of their brother’s death. They also knew that if Jesus and the apostles were to travel immediately, they would see Lazarus before he died. When

Today, in the Gospel, a man born blind will be our companion and will help us to see clearly. This poor man has never known what it is to see. His world is darkness. More than that, he is sometimes despised for his condition, as if he himself is to blame, as if his blindness

Women play a major role in the Gospel of St. John. Mary the Mother of Jesus is the one who launches Him on His public life at the marriage feast of Cana. Martha will be the one who declares that He is the Christ in a way reserved to Peter in the synoptic Gospels; and

At the transfiguration the divinity of Christ and the holiness of His humanity shine out over the apostles. The cloud that overshadows Him reminds us of the cloud in the Old Testament, which is a symbol of God’s presence. The transfuguration reveals the identity of Christ as second person of the Blessed Trinity, and as