A story is told about a School Christmas Pageant in which the boy playing Joseph became ill and was not able to perform. They did not replace him and nobody noticed. Nobody missed Joseph....
This is really an astonishing question that John The Baptist gives to his followers to ask Jesus. He is now in prison because he challenged Herod on his marriage to his brother’s wife Herodias....
We have tended to romanticise much of the Bible or draw our mental images from Cecil B DeMille, the movies, or even from a children’s bible. But imagine going to the centre of the...
For how many people is the coming of Christmas a time of difficulty, acute awareness of bereavement, panic because of financial difficulties, or just despair? How many people dread the season when they are...
We are becoming accustomed to hearing the word “King” a lot more after the passing of Queen Elizabeth, we hear it in other contexts too, “the King of the Jungle”, “the King of Swing”,...
If you have collected an empty shoebox for Operation Christmas Child then tomorrow is the last day that you can drop them off at the Parish Office. They will be collected this week and...
Anxiety about the future is really a universal emotion. At some times in our lives everyone will wonder and worry about the future. Our lives are lived within three dimensions of time. Each of...
Our Liturgy today is dominated with the assurance of an afterlife. It is a splendid hope. Life is not a journey to nowhere. It is a journey to the promised land of eternal life....
In our Gospel Jesus is a guest in Zacchaeus’s house. We know how the visit began and we know how it ended. What happened in-between. Jesus summed up the encounter by saying; “Today Salvation...
The Pharisees were concerned with the correct application of the Law, they always decided on the strictest application of the Law. They tries to make themselves “pure” and formed cliques that only eat with...