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  1. Christ the King, First Sunday of Advent (Year C) 24 November, 1 and 8 December 2024

    Christ the King (John 18:33-37) Jesus is not king in an earthly sense, but because he is the anointed one of God, who comes to do the will of God. Jesus’ kingdom is ‘a kingdom of truth and life, a kingdom of holiness and grace, a kingdom of justice, love and peace’. Jesus came’ to […]

  2. Thirty-First, Thirty-Second and Thirty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time 3, 10, 17 November 2024

    Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time (Mark 12:28-34) Jesus is now in Jerusalem where he has several encounters with the religious teachers. In today’s account, there is no animosity, it is a peaceful dialogue. The conversation raises a point which was very frequently made by the prophets of the Old Testament and by Jesus: love of […]

  3. 27,28,29 and 30 Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B) 6, 13, 20 and 27 October 2024

    Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time (Mark 10:2-16) Jesus teaches of commitment and fidelity in marriage and loving guidance of young people and children. These remain the basic foundations of a healthy and happy society. They are God-given principles. How faithful am I to commitments undertaken? Do I cherish those who are close to me? We […]

  4. Twenty-Fifth and Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B 22 and 29 September 2024

    Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Mark 9:30-37) The second half of the Gospel of Mark is dominated by the journey towards Jerusalem, the place of the death and resurrection of Jesus. Since this Gospel is comparatively short, the tension of this journey is more evident than in the other gospels, as Jesus draws his reluctant […]

  5. 21,22,23 and 24 Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B) 25 August, 1,8 and 15 September 2024

    Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time (John 6:60-69) Jesus’ teaching of the Eucharist is difficult for some of his followers to accept. Greater insight and fidelity is expected from the Twelve and Peter declares “You have the words of eternal life”. Do I appreciate that the words of Jesus are truly words of life? What has […]

  6. Seventeenth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B) 28 July, 4, 11, and 18 August 2024

    Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (John 6:1-15) For the next few weeks our regular reading of the Gospel of Mark is interrupted as we read the sixth chapter of the Gospel of John. The chapter begins with the multiplication of the loaves, which is followed by extended words of Jesus in dialogue with the Jews. […]