Monday 27 March 2023 5th week of Lent Daniel 13:1-9,15-17,19-30,33-62 Susanna and the two elders. Psalm 22 If I should walk in the valley of darkness, no evil would I fear. John 8:1-11Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. At daybreak he appeared in the Temple again; and as...
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Announcing Your Will
Saturday 25 March 2023 The Annunciation of the Lord Isaiah 7:10-14,8:10 The Lord spoke to Ahaz and said, ‘Ask the Lord your God for a sign for yourself coming either from the depths of Sheol or from the heights above.’ ‘No,’ Ahaz answered ‘I will not put the Lord...
The paths he treads are unfamiliar
Friday 24 March 2023 4th week of Lent Wisdom 2:1,12-22 The godless say to themselves, with their misguided reasoning: ‘Our life is short and dreary, nor is there any relief when man’s end comes, nor is anyone known who can give release from Hades. Let us lie in wait...
Close enough to calm God’s anger
Thursday 23 March 2023 4th week of Lent Exodus 32:7-14 The Lord spoke to Moses, ‘Go down now, because your people whom you brought out of Egypt have apostatised. They have been quick to leave the way I marked out for them; they have made themselves a calf of...
My Dad and Me
Wednesday 22 March 2023 4th week of Lent Isaiah 49:8-15 Thus says the Lord: At the favourable time I will answer you, on the day of salvation I will help you. (I have formed you and have appointed you as covenant of the people.) I will restore the land...
Grateful for what we have
Saturday 11 March 2023 2nd week of Lent Micah 7:14-15,18-20 With shepherd’s crook, O Lord, lead your people to pasture, the flock that is your heritage, living confined in a forest with meadow land all around. Let them pasture in Bashan and Gilead as in the days of old....
Divine Dreaming – a risky business
Friday 10 March 2023 2nd week of Lent Genesis 37:3-4,12-13,17-28 Israel loved Joseph more than all his other sons, for he was the son of his old age, and he had a coat with long sleeves made for him. But his brothers, seeing how his father loved him more...
Dives. Drinking Deeply.
Thursday 9 March 2023 2nd week of Lent Jeremiah 17:5-10 The Lord says this: ‘A curse on the man who puts his trust in man, who relies on things of flesh, whose heart turns from the Lord. He is like dry scrub in the wastelands: if good comes, he...
Get past your own interests
Wednesday 8 March 2023 2nd week of Lent Jeremiah 18:18-20 ‘Come on,’ they said, ‘let us concoct a plot against Jeremiah; the priest will not run short of instruction without him, nor the sage of advice, nor the prophet of the word. Come on, let us hit at him...
Lenten practice – Love practically
Tuesday 7 March 2023 2nd week of Lent Isaiah 1:10,16-20 Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom; listen to the command of our God, you people of Gomorrah. ‘Wash, make yourselves clean. Take your wrong-doing out of my sight. Cease to do evil. Learn to do...
Returning from Exile
Monday 6 March 2023 2nd week of Lent Daniel 9:4-10 O Lord, God great and to be feared, you keep the covenant and have kindness for those who love you and keep your commandments: we have sinned, we have done wrong, we have acted wickedly, we have betrayed your...
“You are really cool!”, God.
5th Sunday in Ordinary Time Isaiah 58:7-10 Thus says the Lord: Share your bread with the hungry, and shelter the homeless poor, clothe the man you see to be naked and do not turn from your own kin. Then will your light shine like the dawn and your wound...
For those in darkness a light has dawned
Sunday 22 January 2023 – 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time (Sunday of the Word of God) Isaiah 8:23-9:3In days past the Lord humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in days to come he will confer glory on the Way of the Sea on the...
Surrender to the Music and Dance
Friday 9 December 2022 2nd week of Advent Isaiah 48:17-19 Thus says the Lord, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I, the Lord, your God, teach you what is good for you, I lead you in the way that you must go. If only you had been alert...
Let What You Say Be Done
Thursday 8 December 2022 The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary Genesis 3:9-15,20After Adam had eaten of the tree the Lord God called to him. ‘Where are you?’ he asked. ‘I heard the sound of you in the garden;’ he replied ‘I was afraid because I was naked,...
The first step is to Come.
Wednesday 7 December 2022 Saint Ambrose Bishop Doctor 2nd week of Advent Isaiah 40:25-31 ‘To whom could you liken me and who could be my equal?’ says the Holy One. Lift your eyes and look. Who made these stars if not he who drills them like an army, calling...
Our Interior Exile
Tuesday 6 December 2022 2nd week of Advent Isaiah 40:1-11 ‘Console my people, console them’ says your God. ‘Speak to the heart of Jerusalem and call to her that her time of service is ended, that her sin is atoned for, that she has received from the hand of...
Missionaries of Forgiveness
Monday 5 December 2022 2nd week of Advent Isaiah 35:1-10 Let the wilderness and the dry-lands exult, let the wasteland rejoice and bloom, let it bring forth flowers like the jonquil, let it rejoice and sing for joy. The glory of Lebanon is bestowed on it, the splendour of...
Stay awake – life is waiting for you.
Saturday 26 November 2022 Week 34 in Ordinary Time Apocalypse 22:1-7 The angel showed me, John, the river of life, rising from the throne of God and of the Lamb and flowing crystal-clear down the middle of the city street. On either side of the river were the trees...
Now you are God’s people; now you have received mercy
Friday 25 November 2022 Week 34 Ordinary Time – Feast of St Catherine of Alexandria (d. 305) Foundation of the Company of St Ursula in 1535 1 Peter 2:9-10 You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may...