By the time of the conversation presented in this Gospel Reading, the meeting with the Risen Christ is fairly well along. The meal is finished, and there is something of…

  Palm Sunday – 13 April 2025   As Christians we can try to come to terms with our discomfort over the cruelty and brutality of Christ’s passion by telling…

It is interesting to note that fond as we may be of the image of God as the sternly just punisher of sinners, that is not the picture God draws…

Fourth Sunday of Lent – 30 March 2025   There are two very distinct images of the need for conversion in this Gospel passage. The restlessness, the hungers of the…

Second Sunday of Lent – 16 March 2025   Part of the honest look at our lives that Lent is meant to be is the simple realisation that some of…

The story of the temptation of Christ in the desert is classic Lenten reading. Each of the temptations that come to Christ, as is each that comes to us, was…

Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time – 8 March 2025   This First Reading is taken from what is called the Wisdom Literature. Wisdom, in Hebrew and early Christian thought, was…

Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time – 23rd February 2025   This weekend St Luke continues his revelation of the core of Christian morality begun last week with the Beatitudes, and…

Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time – 16th February 2025   This is one of two places in the Gospels that record the Beatitudes. The other, in Matthew’s Gospel, is a…

Each of these three readings deals in one way or another with someone’s experience of having been called by God, interrupted by God, and set by him to the accomplishment…