Sunday Reflection

• Twenty-first Sunday: Who could know the mind of God?

  Aug 21, 2014

  The last council seems to be the work of the devil.” The words still stay with me, although I heard them from an older priest many years ago.

  

• Twentieth Sunday: All Equal, Each Unique

  Aug 14, 2014

  That ancient problem of the one and the many has taken a million shapes. It is seen in the battle of change with continuity, the clash of novelty with permanence, the claims of individuality versus universality.

  
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  Worsening situation in West Asia

  Aug 14, 2014

  So Obama has ordered air strikes on Iraq to curb the advances made by Isis (now known as the Islamic State) — the latest stage in the ongoing and escalating violence in West Asia.

  

• Nineteenth Sunday: God in the Quiet and the Chaos

  Aug 07, 2014

  Elijah, having been promised that he would find the Lord on the mountain, left the shelter of his cave.

  

• Eighteenth Sunday: The Culture of Life

  Jul 31, 2014

  The Gospel reading for this Sunday begins with Jesus hearing the news of the death of John the Baptist, murdered, as you know, by Herod as part of the plot of his wife, Herodias, to protect her position at court.

  

• Seventeenth Sunday: Wisdom

  Jul 24, 2014

  This Sunday’s readings begin with Solomon’s request for Wisdom and conclude with a summation of the Lord’s teaching on the parables.

  

• Sixteenth Sunday: Weeds among the wheat the price of freedom

  Jul 17, 2014

  The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field; but while men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away.

  

• Fifteenth Sunday: “All creation groans”

  Jul 11, 2014

  Creation has its cost. To be creature, not creator, is to be incomplete, unfinished. Created being is radically insufficient to cause and sustain itself.

  

• My yoke is easy, my burden light

  Jul 05, 2014

  Paul is famous for his suspicions about the body. His own words make him suspect.

  
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  Solemnity of Sts Peter and Paul: They couldn’t even Tweet

  Jun 26, 2014

  If only St Peter was on facebook! He would have had a whole bunch of friends. People from all over the world could have seen pictures of him entering Rome, standing in the forum, waving from a seat in the Colosseum, eating gelato at the chariot races. People in China could have read his sermons.