Monday, 21st April 2025
Daily Reflections Filled with Awe and Great Joy ~ Monday within the Octave of Easter ~ Acts 2:14, 22-33; Ps 15:1-2, 5, 7-11; Mt 28:8-15 ‘Go to Galilee; and there they will see me (Matthew 28:10) This day after the resurrection of Jesus, the experience of Mary Magdalene who went to the tomb was fresh […]
Sunday, 20th April 2025
Daily Reflections He is Risen ~ Easter Sunday of the Resurrection ~ Acts 10:34, 37-43; Ps 117:1-2, 16-17, 22-23; Col 3:1-4; Lk 24:1-12 ‘Why do you look for the living among the dead?’ (Lk 24:5) Just as the sun rises, the women make their way to the tomb. They are not expecting it to be […]
Saturday, 19th April 2025
Daily Reflections Has Hope been Extinguished? ~ Holy Saturday ~ All Masses are prohibited ‘On the first day of the week, at early dawn, the women who had accompanied Jesus from Galilee came to the tomb’ (Luke 24:1). The world waits in stunned silence, the silence of the tomb; for the Lord of life has […]
Friday, 18th April 2025
Daily Reflections Love Reigns Here ~ Friday of the Passion of the Lord ~ Is 52:13-53:12; Ps 30:2, 6, 12-13, 15-17, 25; Heb 4:14-16, 5:7-9; Jn 18:1-19:42 ‘There they crucified him.’ (John 19:18) Was there ever so stark a scene? There, mangled and broken, the Lord hangs upon the cross. Hands and feet pierced by […]
Thursday, 17th April 2025
Daily Reflections We, too, must wash others’ feet ~ Thursday of the Lord’s Supper ~ Ex 12:1-8, 11-14; Ps 115:12-13, 15-18; 1 Cor 11:23-26; Jn 13:1-15 ‘So if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.’ (John 13: 14) We are all familiar with the story. […]
Wednesday, 16th April 2025
Daily Reflections Is Jesus Lord or Rabbi? ~ Wednesday of Holy Week ~ Is 50:4-9; Ps 68:8-10, 21-22, 31, 33-34; Mt 26:14-25 ‘The Son of Man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that one by whom the Son of Man is betrayed!’ (Matthew 26:24) Even allowing for the general weakness of […]
Tuesday, 15th April 2025
Daily Reflections We All Fall Short ~ Tuesday of Holy Week ~ Is 49:1-6; Ps 70:1-6, 15, 17; Jn 13:21-33, 36-38 ‘Very truly, I tell you, one of you will betray me.’ (John 13:21) Judas betrays Christ, yet Peter’s denial is no less a betrayal. After all, he had only just promised to die for […]
Monday, 14th April 2025
Daily Reflections Authentic Witnesses ~ Monday of Holy Week ~ Is 42:1-7; Ps 26:1-3, 13-14; Jn 12:1-11 ‘So the chief priests planned to put Lazarus to death as well, since it was on account of him that many of the Jews were deserting and were believing in Jesus.’ (John 12:10-11) The word witness appropriately has […]
Sunday, 13th April 2025
Daily Reflections Love Reigns Supreme ~ Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord ~ Lk 19:28-40; Is 50:4-7; Ps 21:8-9, 17-20, 23-24; Phil 2:6-11; Lk 22:14-23:56 ‘When the hour came, he took his place at the table, and the apostles with him.’ (Luke 22:14) The palms have been laid out, our cloaks thrown over […]
Saturday, 12th April 2025
Daily Reflections The Passion Play Commences ~ Saturday, Week 5 of Lent ~ Ezek 37:21-28; Jer 31:10-13; Jn 11:45-56 ‘So from that day on they planned to put him to death.’ (John 11:53) His hour has come. Now, the passion play commences. The scene is set, and the drama is about to unfold. Yet, we […]