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Gospel Reflection for the Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C
20 Jul 2025
He who does justice will live in the presence of the Lord. (Psalm 14). We finished last week’s gospel with a call to action: “Go and do likewise.” Today’s gospel gives us another view of Christian life as Christ bids us to be still, silent and to listen to His words. Contradictory as these commands…
Gospel Reflection for the Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C
13 Jul 2025
Turn to the Lord in your need, and you will live. (Psalm 68) The lawyer in today’s Gospel, wishing to disconcert Jesus and, then, trying anxiously to justify himself, did humanity a very good turn, indeed. Jesus’ response was the parable of the Good Samaritan, which remains an inspiration down through the ages. It is…
Gospel Reflection for the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C
6 Jul 2025
Let all the earth cry out to God with joy. (Psalm 65). Luke gives us a glimpse into how Jesus organised his evangelising missions – which were not haphazard but, on the contrary, very well planned. In today’s Gospel, Jesus sent out 72 disciples to the places he was to visit, to prepare for his…
Gospel Reflection for the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul
29 Jun 2025
The angel of the Lord will rescue those who fear him. (Psalm 33) The recent election of Pope Leo XIV brought to light the immense age and continuity of the papacy. It has endured for over two thousand years in an unbroken line, surviving wars, revolutions, good popes, bad popes, saints and sinners. Such a…
Gospel Reflection for Corpus Christi Sunday, Year C
22 Jun 2025
You are a priest forever, in the line of Melchizedek. (Psalm 109) Jesus feeding the five thousand with five loaves and two fish is a story featured in all four gospels, thus indicating its importance – a foreshadowing of the Eucharist – and leads us to reflect seriously on the main points. First of all,…
Gospel Reflection for Trinity Sunday, Year C
15 Jun 2025
O Lord, our God, How wonderful is your name in all the earth! (Psalm 8) The Holy Trinity presents us with more mysteries the more we reflect upon it. The holy conversation between the three Persons is a theological mystery too deep for human fathoming. Having said that, today’s Gospel is all about the sharing…
Gospel Reflection for Pentecost Sunday
8 Jun 2025
Lord, send out your Spirit,and renew the face of the earth. (Psalm 103) Tantalising references are made to the spirit (small “s”) throughout the Old Testament, and we are kept wondering. The Holy Spirit inspired the prophets individually, but not all the people as a whole. The prophet Joel gives us a glimpse into what…
Gospel Reflection for the Ascension of the Lord, Year C
31 May 2025
God mounts his throne to shouts of joy;a blare of trumpets for the Lord. (Psalm 46). In his Gospel, Luke gives only a brief and passing account of the Lord’s Ascension into heaven, but gives us a more detailed account in his Acts of the Apostles. We therefore read his divinely inspired gospel with special…
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