Friday, 11th April 2025
Daily Reflections Interpret the Signs ~ Friday, Week 5 of Lent ~ Jer 20:10-13; Ps 17:2-7; Jn 10:31-42 ‘If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me.’ (John 10:37) Many who witnessed or were at least aware of the signs Jesus worked were convinced and came to believe in […]
Thursday, 10th April 2025
Daily Reflections I Cannot Sit on the Fence ~ Thursday, Week 5 of Lent ~ Gen 17:3-9; Ps 104:4-9; John 8:51-59 ‘Are you greater than our father Abraham, who died?’ (John 8:53) Why do they crucify Christ? Perhaps above all else, it is because he claims divine status. According to the Law, this is blasphemy, […]
Wednesday, 9th April 2025
Daily Reflections Set Me Free ~ Wednesday, Week 5 of Lent ~ Dan 3:14-20, 24-25, 28; Dan 3:52-56; John 8:31-42 ‘Very truly, I tell you, everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin.’ (John 8: 34) Yesterday’s theme of slavery to sin continues in today’s Gospel. Sin and temptation are universal human experiences, and […]
Tuesday, 8th April 2025
Daily Reflections Jesus Lifted Up ~ Tuesday, Week 5 of Lent ~ Num 21:4-9; Ps 101:2-3, 16-21; Jn 8:21-30 ‘When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will realise that I am he.’ (John 8: 8) The hour draws near when the Son of Man is to be ‘lifted up’, that is […]
Monday, 7th April 2025
Daily Reflections Saving Light ~ Monday, Week 5 of Lent ~ Dan 13:1-9, 15-17, 19-30, 33-62; Ps 22; Jn 8:12-20 Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, ‘I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness but will have the light of life.’ (John 8:12) Most people today live in […]
Sunday, 6th April 2025
Daily Reflections Don’t Throw Stones ~ Fifth Sunday of Lent ~ Is 43:16-21; Ps 125; Phil 3:8-14; Jn 8:1-11 ‘Let anyone among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.’ (John 8:7) In case we are inclined to stand with the crowd, picking up stones and casting judgment, let […]
Saturday, 5th April 2025
Daily Reflections Like a Gentle Lamb ~ Saturday, Week 4 of Lent ~ Jer 11:18-20; Ps 7:2-3, 9-12; Jn 7:40-52 ‘But I was like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter.’ (Jeremiah 11:19) One of the most deeply moving moments at Mass takes place after the Sign of Peace. The priest takes the consecrated host and […]
Friday, 4th April 2025
Daily Reflections Don’t Rush to Judgment ~ Friday, Week 4 of Lent ~ Wis 2:1, 12-22; Ps 33:16, 18, 19-21, 23; Jn 7:1-2, 10, 25-30 ‘Yet we know where this man is from; but when the Messiah comes, no one will know where he is from.’ (John 7:27) Jesus enters the city in secret to […]
Thursday, 3rd April 2025
Daily Reflections Let God’s Word Abide in You ~ Thursday, Week 4 of Lent ~ Ex 32:7-14; Ps 105:19-23; Jn 5:31-47 ‘You have never heard his voice or seen his form, and you do not have his word abiding in you, because you do not believe him whom he has sent.’ (John 5:37-38) How easy it […]
Wednesday, 2nd April 2025
Daily Reflections Conquering Our Doubt ~ Wednesday, Week 4 of Lent ~ Is 49:8-15; Ps 144:8-9, 13-14, 17-18; Jn 5:17-30 ‘Can a woman forget her nursing child, or show no compassion for the child of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you.’ (Isaiah 49:15) In the garden, the serpent tempts […]