Bishop David McGough, Author at Catholic Herald

Bishop David McGough

April 06, 2017

Palm Sunday is 50: 4-7; PHIL 2:6-11; MT 26:14-27 (YEAR A) And when Jesus entered Jerusalem, the whole city was in turmoil. ‘Who is this?’ people asked.” Matthew’s account of Palm Sunday describes the Jerusalem that greeted Jesus as a city in turmoil. Initially the crowds had welcomed him as the Son of David, a

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March 30, 2017

Fifth Sunday of Lent Ez 37:12-14; Rom 8: 8-11; Jn 11:1-45 (year a) ‘I am going now to open your graves, my people, and lead you back to the soil of Israel. And I shall put my spirit in you, and you will live.” These words, spoken by the prophet Ezekiel, were addressed to Israel’s

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March 23, 2017

Fourth Sunday of Lent 1 Sm 16:1, 6-7 & 10-13; Eph 5:8-14; Jn 9:1-41 (year a) ‘God does not see as man sees; man looks at appearances, but God looks at the heart.” These words, spoken long ago by the prophet Samuel, prefaced the anointing of David as Israel’s king. The onlookers were amazed. David

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March 16, 2017

The Third Sunday of Lent Ex 17:3-7; Rom 5:1-2 & 5-8; Jn 4:5-42 (year a) ‘Tormented by thirst, the people complained to Moses: ‘Why did you bring us out of Egypt? Was it so that I should die of thirst, me and my children too, and my cattle?’ ” Hunger and thirst are the powerful biological

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March 09, 2017

Second Sunday of Lent Gen 12:1-4; 2 Tim 1:8-10; Mt 17:1-9 (year a) Lent is a season of repentance underpinned by a clear vision of hope. It is a journey that begins from the humble confession of where sin has brought us, and concludes with the joyful celebration of what we are becoming in Christ

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March 02, 2017

First Sunday of Lent Gn 2:7-9; 3:1-7; Ps 51; Rom 5:12-19; Mt 4:1-11 (year a) ‘The Lord God fashioned man of dust from the soil. Then he breathed into his nostrils a breath of life, and thus man became a living being.” The Genesis account of man’s creation and subsequent fall is more than primitive

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February 23, 2017

The Eighth Sunday of the Year Is 49:14-15; 1 Cor 4:1-5; Mt 6:24-34 (year a) ‘Does a woman forget her baby at the breast, or fail to cherish the son of her womb? Yet even if these forget, I shall never forget you.” The prophet Isaiah described the relationship between God and his people in

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February 16, 2017

The Seventh Sunday of the Year Lev 19:1-2 & 17-18; 1 Cor 3:16-23; Mt 5: 38-45 (Year A) ‘Be holy, for I, the Lord your God, am holy.” In the Book of Leviticus, Moses proclaimed the call to holiness as the foundation of Israel’s moral code. We cannot doubt the holiness of God, but we

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February 09, 2017

The Sixth Sunday of the Year Ecclus 15:16-20; 1 Cor 2: 6-10; Mt 5:17-16 (year a) ‘Open my eyes that I may consider the wonders of your law. Teach me the demands of your statutes and I will keep them to the end. Train me to observe your law, to keep it with my heart.”

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February 02, 2017

The Fifth Sunday of the Year Is 58:7-10; 1 Cor 2:1-5; Mt 5:13-16 (year a) ‘Share your bread with the hungry, and shelter the homeless poor. Then will your light shine like the dawn, and your wound be quickly healed over.” The prophet Isaiah understood the relief of poverty as faith’s most fundamental witness. His

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January 26, 2017

The Fourth Sunday of the Year Zeph 2:3 & 3:12-13; 1 Cor 1:26-31; Mt 5:1-12 (year a) ‘Seek the Lord all you, the humble of the earth, who obey his commands. Seek integrity, seek humility. In your midst I will leave a humble and lowly people, and those who are left in Israel will seek

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January 19, 2017

The Third Sunday of the Year Is 8:23 – 9:3; 1 Cor 1:10-13; Mt 4:12-23 (year a) ‘I appeal to you brothers, for the sake of Our Lord Jesus Christ, to make up the differences between you, and instead of disagreeing among yourselves, be united again in your belief and in your practice.” St Paul’s

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