What does the Incarnation bring us? St Joseph with the Child JesusLove, God’s love: At the center of Christmas is the mystery of God’s Love. Are we aware of the immensity of this gift? Are we aware of the implications this Love brings to and for our lives, and for our world? This Love b
This is Gaudete Sunday, which means in one word: Rejoice! I think as we delve a little into the readings we will see how apropos this title is for describing the Third Sunday of Advent! The first reading from Isaiah opens with this announcement: ‘The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me’. It follows with a kind of delineation of what t
'Prepare the way of the Lord’: this is the proclamation for the Second Sunday of Advent. Jean Danielou wrote over 40 years ago these words that so aptly describe our present day reality: “The Baptist’s message is addressed to a world held captive by sin and death, powerless to free itself, a world destined for dea
‘Why do you let us wander, O Lord, from your ways, and harden our hearts so that we fear you not’? This is how Advent opens with the first reading from Isaiah (63:16b-17, 19b; 64:2-7). Left to our selves we wander from the ways of God, our hearts become hardened almost unnoticed because we are living without much awareness of what is happening inside, within the heart. Once we become aware and notice more, we may feel moved to cry out, ‘Oh that you would rend the heavens and come down
30stSUNDAY in ORDINARY TIME – A – October 29, 2017 br. Daniël[Ex 22:20-26; 1Thess1:5c-10; Mt 22:34-40]
Jesus is involved in a series of debates with the Jewish religious leaders. As soon as the Pharisees learn that Jesus has silenced the Sadducees, one of them comes up with a new question: ‘Teacher, which commandment in the Law is the greatest?’ As a good Jew, Jesus begins by quoting the most fundamental one: ‘Love God
