The fourth Gospel, the one that we refer to as the Gospel of St John, is strong in symbolism and metaphor. We readers of the Gospel must not be seduced into reading into this Gospel more than the metaphorical and theological intention of its author. On ... read more
This third Sunday of Lent marks the halfway point of our Lenten Season. It’s not a bad time to ask ourselves, “How have we been going this Lent?”. There is a saying that “penance should not only be inward and individual, but also outward and socia... read more
Today’s readings from the Book of Genesis and the Gospel of Mark led us to ideas about God. Ideas that can occupy our minds during this season of Lent. How close can we get to God? Essentially both stories that we read today take place on Mountains. For... read more
The season of Lent has begun. There are five weeks to go before we begin our 2018 Easter Celebrations. This is a time of prayerful preparation for each and every one of us. We are invited to pray a little more; to be a little more generous; to treat our f... read more
It is not an uncommon experience sometimes for us to feel like we are an “outsider”. In some groups of people we can have a sense that we are not welcome or we don’t belong. Of course, depending on who we are; or on our ethnic origins; or on our soc... read more
Sometimes we miss the deep message of the Gospel stories because we are people who read newspapers, journals and novels. Generally we tend to read a story and treat it literally. Many of the Gospel stories, unlike the stories we read in our age, are loade... read more
Sometimes when people ask us, “How was your day?”, we simply reply “It was just an ordinary day!”. Nevertheless, when one thinks about it, every day is different. We observe different things; we say and hear different words. We meet differen... read more
In today’s Gospel story we hear an account of Jesus calling to himself his special group of friends and fellow workers. It is an invitation to his twelve close followers, not simply to “stick with him”, but it is also an invitation to reject all tha... read more