Weekly Reflection

Today’s feast is one that calls on us to be full of gratitude for our faith and to celebrate with one another God’s closeness to us. As we continue with our Eucharist, the great prayer of thanksgiving, we will be reminded that once again we are caught up in the mystery of the Trinity. Soon […]

In today’s Gospel we hear why it is that we are still celebrating Pentecost over 2000 year later. Jesus, in His farewell discourse to His disciples, assures them that they will never be abandoned. He promises that the Father will send them His Advocate, one who will teach them how to remain true to Christ’s

What makes Christ’s prayer in the Gospel unique, apart from the amazing fact that He is praying for us, is that He is directly addressing His heavenly Father. Jesus is praying not only for His immediate disciples but for all of those who come to believe through their witness. That means us. We have an

At the Last Supper, the night before He died, Jesus made His own last will and testament to His disciples. The great bequest that Jesus makes, His parting gift, is the gift of peace. It is the power of the Holy Spirit, which after His death and resurrection, Jesus will send from the Father to

In today’s Gospel, Jesus prepares His disciples for a different way of life, one where He is no longer physically present with them. He reminds them of His love for them, and teaches that they need to respond to that love and to express it, so that others may know that they are disciples of

St. Paul had been a senior Pharisee and the local Jews might have first thought of him as a visiting celebrity. Imagine their horror to find him preaching about Jesus and preaching to the pagans too. St. Paul makes clear that he has come not to his fellow Jews but to all who will accept

The Gospel passage contains the key that the other two readings depend on for their meaning. For here Jesus straddles two worlds, the earthly and the heavenly, as only God-made-man could do. The risen Christ calls the disciples to be fishers of people, to bring into community the great catch of believers. Seated by the

Wounds are something that we all receive at some time during our lives. We can receive them through surgery, and even in the process of giving birth. We often talk about “broken hearts”, in reference to love affairs that have gone wrong. Cardinal Armand Richelieu, the famous 17th Century statesman, thought that “Wounds inflicted by

The books of the New Testament would not have been written if Jesus had not risen from the dead. It is clear from the resurrection stories that the disciples would have mourned the passing of their crucified Lord. They would have gathered in His memory for a short time and then drifted apart, going back