24th Sunday in Ordinary time “ Do not let the sun go down on your anger” No doubt many of you heard your mother or father say that to you as children, when God forbid, you or your brothers and sisters were fighting or [...]

23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time This Sunday’s readings did not seem at first sight to be easy to write about,  all about correcting our neighbour’s faults and sins out of love.  What a tough and unpleasant task! Since our earliest days we have been [...]

22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time Today’s Gospel may not be a comfortable one for us. It presents a challenge to take up the cross, to take up a cross for the sake of the Good News and not to be like Peter, a block [...]

21st Sunday in Ordinary Time XXI Domingo del Tiempo Ordinario El evangelio del Domingo 21, Mateo 16,13_20 nos convoca ante una pregunta y una certeza, la pregunta de Jesús hacia sus discípulos “quién dice la gente quien soy yo” y también qué decimos [...]

The theme of The Stranger – the person who comes from a different culture - runs through all three Readings this weekend. This seems very apt in the context of today’s world where we are challenged to open our hearts and our borders to [...]

  On this the 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time we are gifted with the Gospel of Matthew 14:22-33. The painting depicting Jesus and his disciples immediately brought to mind the images, we have sadly become familiar with, of  the thousands of migrants who have crossed [...]

When it comes to the most wonderful time of the year, the first weeks of August are up there with Christmas. For most of us, it is finally time for a break and that long-awaited holiday (if you already had one, hopefully you can [...]

This Sunday's liturgy invites us to reflect on our priorities and the basic values on which we base our existence. We are unrelenting pilgrims in search of the Kingdom of God. We all have been called, for we are witnesses to the Love of God [...]

16th Sunday In Ordinary Time July 23rd 2023 In today’s gospel, Matthew puts before us a teaching of Jesus about ‘the Kingdom’ in parable form. The parables are invitations to learn what the coming of God’s liberating and life-giving reign should mean for us. [...]

`If you want to follow Jesus, you better look good on wood’. Daniel Berrigan’s quote seems apt for Chapter 10 of Matthew’s gospel. Here we see Jesus sending the twelve ‘on mission with instructions’. He gives them some pointers about how to behave but [...]

Jeremiah was only 20 years old when called as a Prophet, so he was young. For forty years he warned all in Jerusalem that unless they turned back to God they would be captured and taken captive to Babylon, and 4,600 Jews were exiled [...]

Exodus 19:2-6 Ps.99:2-3,5 Rom. 5:6—11 Matt. 9:36-10:8 Pondering over the scriptures for this 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time, the themes of God’s love and mercy, being alert to God’s voice calling to us through the actions and circumstances of daily living, and the faithfulness [...]

When I was young, one of the highlights of the year was the Rathnew Corpus Christi Procession. It appeared that people came from all over to attend. For weeks beforehand the excitement in the village was tangible. Hedges were trimmed, places were cleaned up, [...]

Many of us retain in our mind phrases relating to God. When things have gone well for us, we have said, “Thanks be to God”. We experience a pleasant unexpected happening and we may say. Glory be to God”. When someone dies people often [...]

Evangelio De Juan, 20,19-23 La escena del Evangelio del día de hoy- día tan especial que es Pentecostés, donde Jesús se presenta a sus amigo/as y les regala el don de la paz, diciéndoles “la paz este con ustedes”, hoy también a nosotros/as nos [...]

Acts 1:1-11; Ephesians 1:17-23; Matthew 28:16-20 The Last Farewell! Not really! He is going but remaining! The mission is thrust upon the disciples. They are to wait. Then he is lifted up into a cloud. What a conundrum for the poor disciples whose limited [...]

Acts 8:5 – 8, 14 – 17, 1 Peter 3: 15 – 18, John 14: 15 – 21 This Sunday brings us to the final weeks of Easter. It is a transitional time in terms of liturgy and season. The feast of the Ascension, [...]

Acts 6:1-7, Psalm 32, 1 Peter 2:4-9, JN 14:1-12 In today’s Readings, we are called to join in the royal Priesthood of God.  From before time began, we were called and chosen by God to join in His ministry and to bring others closer [...]

En este domingo de 4º de Pascua, se nos invita a reflexionar sobre los distintos textos. En la primera lectura, habla de los discursos que son muy importantes en el libro de los Hechos, aquí se subraya la dimensión comunitaria del testimonio de Pedro. [...]

Stay with us. In today’s gospel, following Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection, two of his disciples set out on a journey to a village called Emmaus. However, scripture scholars tell us that the identity of this village is disputed. The precise destination doesn’t really matter [...]

Nas leituras do segundo domingo da Páscoa, encontramos um chamado à comunhão com Deus e com nosso irmão Jesus. Que alegria, quando vemos que pela fé e através da fé podemos estar em comunhão. É na partilha do pão, no que temos e no [...]

(Sir 15:15-20; Ps 119:1-2, 4-5, 17-18, 33-34; 1 Cor 2:6-10; Mt 5:17-37) A line in the Responsorial Psalm for the 2nd Sunday of the Year: “My God, I delight in your law in the depth of my heart” [Ps 39 (40):8] seems to me [...]

Is.58:7-10, 1Cor.2:1-5, Mt.5:13-16 Today’s readings are both affirming and challenging and, for me, are all interlinked. Isaiah in the first reading speaks of the great needs of people and the unjust situations that existed.  And just in case one’s family is forgotten, he has [...]