Weekly Reflection

People who serve us in shops or get us tickets for transport or leisure activities, they can somehow disappear off our radar as human beings. We only really notice them when they are inefficient or all too human in their responses, perhaps a little like ourselves. Then we may ignore those who are closest to […]

You or I might feel helpless after so many years of such suffering; but when the woman approached Jesus, it seems she saw in Him something different, some glimmer of hope. She told herself that if she could even touch His clothes, she would be healed, and reaching out was indeed a great act of

We are not a people who exist in a spiritual, other-worldly environment. We are human beings of flesh and blood, with our feet on the ground in this world. We live as members of a eucharistic community, a people formed, grounded and fed by the Eucharist, a people in communion with God and with each

Sometimes we get bogged down in the intellectual, and forget the imagination. We look for proof in numbers and statistics, instead of seeing the truth. In today’s Gospel Jesus sends out the disciples on a mission to all nations, to baptize in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy

At Pentecost, we do not celebrate what happened to Jesus. We commemorate how the Holy Spirit empowered His followers to go out into the world and make a difference. They were reminded that they had a mission, to bring the good news of God’s love to the world. The story is about how Jesus’ life

In the Gospel we are taken back to the Last Supper. The prayer Jesus prays is known as the priestly and royal prayer of Jesus, and is the most solemn prayer of Jesus in the New Testament. Jesus prays not only for Himself but for His disciples and for all His followers who will come

To remain in Jesus’ love is not to sit back and enjoy peace of mind and a sublime state of equilibrium that is untroubled by all that passes by. It is not a self-indulgent sense of the certainty of our own salvation without reference to anyone else. Jesus calls us to love as He did.

We can become so preoccupied and rattled by negative events that we allow them to undermine our faith and forget about times of consolidation and growth. If we allow ourselves to be open to discuss our faith, to talk about what we believe and how we do things, then such times can be the occasion

The Church of Christ exists precisely for this – to preach the Gospel of love, to heal those who are sick and to bring back those who are lost. Like the Lord Himself, we will often be dismissed, and the message ignored or rejected. We should not be surprised at this. Instead we are called