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Join Maya Bernardo, Margaret Bearsley and Kate Kearins in conversation, reflecting on the scriptures for the Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Read the scriptures for this Sunday at this link.
Read the scriptures for Saturday of Week Fourteen in Ordinary Time at this link.
Read the scriptures for the Feast of St. Benedict at this link.
Join Lucienne Hensel & Catherine Gibbs in conversation with John Kinder reflecting on the scriptures for the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Read the scriptures for this Fourteenth Sunday at this link.
Read the scriptures for Sunday of Week Fourteen in Ordinary Time at this link.
Read the scriptures for Friday Week Thirteen in Ordinary Time at this link.
Read the scriptures for Monday of Week Thirteen in Ordinary Time at this link.
Read the scriptures for Sunday Week Thirteen in Ordinary Time at this link.
Join Kath Petrie, Jane Maisey, John Kinder & Triona Doocey in conversation reflecting on the scriptures for the Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Read the scriptures for this Thirteenth Sunday at this link.
Read the scriptures for Thursday of Week Twelve in Ordinary Time at this link.
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Note the physicality of today’s gospel reading.
Physical features (hearts, hands, feet, mouth, eyes) abound and emotional realities are strong (peace, alarm, fright, agitation, doubt).
I had planned to continue the daily reflections through this Easter Week but I’ve already missed Easter Monday and Easter Tuesday and now it’s early morning on Easter Wednesday. Thank you to those who emailed with “where are you”, “what happened” and “I haven’t had a FFF email this week.” Thank you for your enthusiasm and for keeping me on my toes.
There is a great old Easter greeting: “We are an Easter people” to which hearers respond “and Alleluia is our song!” I love this, and if I see you in this Easter Week, this Octave of Easter Sundays, you are welcome to greet me in this way. The reason I need to be reminded that we are an Easter people is that I too often reduce the Easter life we are offered to ideas and categories, words and formulas, customary ways of thinking and acting.
I understand Judas and I look forward to meeting him when I get to heaven.
He was not a bad man (that perfume could have been sold and the money given to the poor), but he often put his own interests first, (helping himself to the common purse) and wanted to be in the “in” group (what will you give me if I hand him over to you).
There is a bad old joke that suggests that giving a homily is the art of twisting whatever the preacher wants to say to fit the scriptures.
