In our retreat with Fr. Michael Dodds, OP, our second conference was on ‘the hiddenness of God’.  This hiddenness of God, the God who is unknowable leads, Fr. Michael said, to some people denying the very existence of God.  What I was struck by in this conference was the connection Fr. Michael made between the hiddenness and unknowable dimension of God to ‘faith’.

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 23 Faults Which Deserve Excommunication
Mass: Ep 5:21-33 or Ep 5:2a, 25-32; Resp Ps 128; Lk 13:18-21


What is the Kingdom of God like?
What follows is the Proclamation from today's Evening Prayer:

Faith seems to be as small and insigni

The gospel reading of this Sunday from the gospel of Mark (10:46-52) is the story of the encounter between Bartimaeus and Jesus: it is an encounter of faith.  Let’s look at the elements of this utterly simple and amazing encounter.  Bartimaeus is along the roadside begging.  On hearing that Jesus was passing by “he began to cry out and say, ‘Jesus, son of David, have pity on me.’”  What happens next?  The people tell him to keep silent and even ‘rebuke

Friday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time
First Friday of the Month

Readings of the Day:
RB: Ch 52 The Oratory of the Monastery
Mass: Jr 26:1-9; Resp Ps 69; Mt 13:54-58



And he did not work many mighty deeds there because of their lack of faith.
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Tuesday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 38 The Weekly Reader
Mass: Is 7:1-9; Resp Ps 48; Mt 11:20-24


Unless your faith is firm you shall not be firm.
When things at work or home become difficult today, remember Jesus' words to the