This week we hear Jesus lay down a challenge to us.  It is a very direct message that if someone is claiming that they love Jesus and follow him, they...

Most of us have had the experience of sharing a last meal or saying a last goodbye before a heart sickening parting. Tearful farewells at the airport as loved ones...

In this short passage from the gospel of John, Jesus is responding to a question posed by a group of Jewish religious leaders who wanted him to speak plainly and...

‘Come and have breakfast.’ A humble bar-b-que breakfast on the lakeside, a simple request set in extra-ordinary circumstances. What answer would you give? After a hard night of work (fishing...

Today's reading from the Gospel of John, is proclaimed on the second Sunday of Easter in each of the three Sunday Lectionary cycles. This gives us a hint about the...

How significant that the faithful women, ‘at the first sign of dawn’ went to the tomb!  Little did they know that this was the great dawn, that Light had overcome...

Jesus said: “Do this in remembrance of me…” (Luke 22:19) Remembering brings the past into the present to shape the future. This week we remember the night Jesus was betrayed...

It was probably embarrassing enough for the women who was “in full view of everybody” to be lectured to. In a very compassionate act, Jesus doesn’t begin to preach about...

This Sunday’s Gospel “The Parable of the Lost Son” speaks right into the heart of mercy, not just how God extends mercy to the lost who are found but how...

All good scriptural texts have multiple layers of meaning. Different people can read the same text and receive very different messages. This can depend upon their life experiences, their world...