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March 08, 2018
Fourth Sunday of Lent 2 Chron 36:14-16 & 19-23; Eph 2:4-10; Jn 3:14-21 (Year B) The biblical account of Israel’s history is more than a record of the past; it is a challenge to the present. Thus today’s account of Israel’s continued infidelity, leading to Jerusalem’s downfall and exile, speaks to us. For generations a
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March 01, 2018
Third Sunday of Lent Ex 20:1-17; 1 Cor 1:22-25; Jn 2:13-25 (Year B) The Commandments of the Law entrusted to Moses, considered in isolation, can appear as the insistent demands of a distant God. They do not stand easily with the modern preoccupation with self-determination. The psalmist, voicing the longing of God’s faithful people, understood
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February 22, 2018
Second Sunday of Lent Gen 22:1-2 & 9-13; Rom 8:31-34; Mk 9:2-10 (Year B) “God put Abraham to the test. ‘Take your Son, your only child Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah. There you shall offer him as a burnt offering, on a mountain I will point out to you.’”
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February 15, 2018
First Sunday of Lent Gen 9:8-15; 1 Pet 3:18-15; Mk 1:12-15 (Year B) The Genesis account of the covenant with Noah marked a new beginning for sinful humanity. The harmony of creation, symbolised by the Garden of Eden, had been fractured by original sin. From that point onwards humanity’s relationship with God and the environment
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February 08, 2018
Sixth Sunday of the Year Lev 13:1-2 & 44-46; 1 Cor 10:3 –11:1; Mk 1:40-45 (Year B) “It is not good that the man should be alone. I will make him a helpmate.” The words spoken by the Creator underline what is at the heart of our humanity. However self-sufficient we consider ourselves to be,
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February 01, 2018
Fifth Sunday of the Year Job 7:1-4 & 6-7; 1 Cor 9:16-19 & 22-23; Mk 1:29-39 (Year B) “Is not man’s life on earth nothing more than pressed service, his time no better than hired drudgery? Remember that my life is but a breath, and that my eyes will never see joy.” The Book of
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January 25, 2018
Fourth Sunday of the Year Deut 18:15-20; 1 Cor 7:32-35; Mk 1:21-28 (Year B) “Your God will raise up for you a prophet like myself, from among yourselves; to him you must listen.” These words were spoken by Moses to the tribes of Israel as they were about to take possession of the Promised Land.
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January 18, 2018
Third Sunday in Ordinary Time Jon 3:1-5 & 10; 1 Cor 7:29-31; Mk 1:14-20 (Year B) The story of Jonah and the whale is colourful and lingers long in the memory. Even if many would feel that it has little practical application today, we would be wrong to dismiss it. The point it wishes to
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January 11, 2018
Second Sunday of the Year 1 Sm 3:3-10 & 19; 1 Cor 6:13-15 & 17-20; Jn 1:35-42 (Year B) “You do not ask for sacrifice and offerings, but an open ear. You do not ask for holocaust and victim. Instead, here am I.” The prayer of the psalmist reminds us that the first step in
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January 04, 2018
The Epiphany of the Lord Is 60:1-6; Eph 3:2-3 & 5-6; Mt 2:1-12 (Year B) “Arise, shine out Jerusalem, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord is rising on you. Though night still covers the earth and darkness the peoples.” The prophet Isaiah skilfully described our longing for salvation as darkness
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December 21, 2017
The Nativity of the Lord Is 52:7-10; Heb 1:1-6; Ps 98; Jn 1:1-18 (Year B) The imagery and vocabulary of the Christmas readings trigger a kaleidoscope of memory and emotion. The prophet Isaiah addressed a people that had walked in darkness. In different ways we have walked in darkness; we have lived in a land
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December 14, 2017
The Third Sunday of Advent Is 61:1-2 & 10-11; 1 Thess 5:16-24; Jn 1:6-8 & 19-28 (Year B) The prophet Isaiah perfectly captured the joyful expectation that fills our hearts as Christmas approaches: it was as if a people who had long since abandoned hope, both for themselves and their nation, had been awakened to unimagined
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