Monday, 26th May 2025
Daily Reflections Standing with the Persecuted ~ Memorial St Philip Neri, priest ~ Acts 16:11-15; Ps 149:1-6, 9; Jn 15:26-16:4 ‘You also are to testify’ (John 15:27) Jesus warns us that there will be those who will expel, even kill, his followers, believing that they are thereby ‘offering worship to God.’ The reference to being […]
Sunday, 25th May 2025
Daily Reflections Embracing the Unity of the Trinity ~ Sixth Sunday of Easter ~ Acts 15:1-2, 22-29; Ps 66:2-3, 5-6, 8; Rev 21:10-14, 22-23; Jn 14:23-29 ‘Those who love me he will keep my word and my Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.’ (John 14:23) […]
Saturday, 24th May 2025
Daily Reflections Your Will be done. ~ Solemnity Our Lady Help of Christians ~ Gen 3:9-15, 20; Ps 102:1-4, 8-9, 11-12; Eph 3:14-19; Lk 8:19-21 ‘My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and do it.’ (Luke 8:21) In every moment of her life, Mary modelled for us how to hear […]
Friday, 23rd May 2025
Daily Reflections Title for the day ~ Friday Week 5 of Easter ~ Acts 15:22-31; Ps 56:8-12; Jn 15:12-17 ‘I have called you friends’ (John 15:15) For some strange reason, I get asked this question a lot: ‘What do you want written on your gravestone?’ I’m leaning towards something simple: ‘Loved God. Loved the Catholic […]
Thursday, 22nd May 2025
Daily Reflections Love’s Perfect Joy ~ Thursday Week 5 of Easter ~ Acts 15:7-21; Ps 95:1-3, 10; Jn 15: 9-11 ‘abide in my love’ (John 15: 9) In today’s gospel we build on what Jesus told us yesterday. ‘I am the vine, you are the branches.’ (John 15:5). He makes it perfectly clear that apart […]
Wednesday, 21st May 2025
Daily Reflections You are My Disciples ~ Wednesday Week 5 of Easter ~ Acts 15:1-6; Ps 121:1-5; Jn 15:1-8 ‘Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruit.’ (John 15:5) Our call to being disciples of Jesus begins with our Baptism. We enter this gift of living the gospel way of life […]
Tuesday, 20th May 2025
Daily Reflections Peace beyond this World ~ Tuesday Week 5 of Easter ~ Acts 14:19-28; Ps 144:10-13, 21; Jn 14:27-31 ‘Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you.’ (John 14:27) In today’s gospel, Jesus offers a gift that is unlike anything we can create or negotiate. This is not the peace of […]
Monday, 19th May 2025
Daily Reflections At Home with God ~ Monday Week 5 of Easter ~ Acts 14:5-18; Ps 113B: 1-4, 15-16; Jn 14:21-26 ‘We will come to them and make our home with them’ (John 14:23) We are experiencing increased structural and psychological homelessness in Australia. Witness the growing numbers of Australians living rough in our city […]
Sunday, 18th May 2025
Daily Reflections Do we truly Love like Jesus did? ~ Fifth Sunday of Easter ~ Acts 14:21-27; Ps 144:8-13; Rev 21:1-5; Jn 13:31-35 ‘Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. (John 13:34-35) When […]
Saturday, 17th May 2025
Daily Reflections Embodying the Gospel ~ Saturday Week 4 of Easter ~ Acts 13:44-52; Ps 97:1-4; Jn 14:7-14 ‘Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own; but the Father who dwells in me does […]