First reading  Acts 10:25-26, 34-35, 44-48 Second reading 1Jn 4:7-10 The Gospel Jn 15: 9-17 ‘All you need is love’ – as the Beatles' song goes, and the readings of this week, the 6th Sunday of Easter, have the language of love and friendship. [...]

I am sure many of us have a memory of an occasion in our life when we were given a parting message which began…‘Don’t forget to…’ or ‘I want you to always remember…’ John’s final message to us in today’s Gospel is, according to [...]

Readings: Acts 10:34, 37-43, Psalm 117(118), Colossians  3:1-4/Corinthians  5:6-8, John 20:1-9 There is an extraordinary contrast between the glorious certainty and confidence of the first and second readings, the psalm and the Sequence, and the hesitancy of the apostles and Mary Magdalene in the [...]