Second Sunday Of Easter
Welcome my brothers and sisters in Christ to today’s celebration of the Holy Mass. I trust that during the past week, beginning with Easter Sunday, you have all had many enjoyable moments for the glory of God. Last Sunday, we commemorated the glorious Resurrection of the Lord Jesus. This Sunday, we are called to remember […]
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My brothers and sisters, today’s message from the First Reading [Acts 10:34, 36-43] of the Word of God is presented to us by our first Pope, Peter the First. Often, we do not think of Peter as the First Pope. Rather, we think of him as St. Peter. But in reality, it is he who […]
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Second Sunday Of Lent
Peter, James and John did not want it to end. What did they not want to end? They didn’t want this special touch of heaven, this transformation or transfiguration of the Lord, this visit by Moses and Elijah, none of this, they didn’t want any of it to end. “Let’s put up tents,” they said. “Let’s hold on to this moment,” they meant. But it had to end. It all had to end because the plan had to take place
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First Sunday Of Lent
The practical, the powerful, and the personal, the three temptations the devil puts before Jesus; they are very clever, very beguiling, but temptations are like that, if they were not they would not be temptations, they would be things that could be rejected without a second thought. What might we learn about ourselves in these conversations between the devil and Jesus?
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Ash Wednesday
“Do not be like the hypocrites.” Matthew 6:5
“I danced for the scribe and the Pharisee,
but they would not dance and they wouldn’t follow me.”
Learning Lord of the Dance in primary school days was a lesson in who were the good guys and who were the bad guys in the Gospel story. There was no doubt in the mind of a small schoolboy that the Scribes and the Pharisees were the bad guys; in an impressionable mind they became like pantomime figures, almost deserving boos and hisses when they made their appearances.
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