Monday, 13 April 2026
Meeting in the dark – Monday of the second week of Easter
“He came to Jesus by night…” (John 3:2)
Shortly before his death, Pope Francis began a catechesis series on encounters with Jesus from the gospels (Cycle of Catechesis – Jubilee 2025). He began with the meeting in the dark of night between Nicodemus and Jesus, and explains that the dark night likely reflects the darkness Nicodemus found himself…
Monday, 13 April 2026
Meeting in the dark – Monday of the second week of Easter
“He came to Jesus by night…” (John 3:2)
Shortly before his death, Pope Francis began a catechesis series on encounters with Jesus from the gospels (Cycle of Catechesis – Jubilee 2025). He began with the meeting in the dark of night between Nicodemus and Jesus, and explains that the dark night likely reflects the darkness Nicodemus found himself…
Sunday, 12 April 2026
From Doubt to Devotion: The Journey of Thomas – 2 EASTER
“Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have come to believe” (John 20: 29)
Thomas is often judged quite harshly for being a doubter and “wanting proof”. But maybe such demands reflect his understanding of the gravity and implications of the resurrected Jesus. (Thomas seems to be a very headstrong person – see how brash and brave he is in John 11:16.) He seems…
Saturday, 11 April 2026
But They Did Not Believe – Easter Saturday
“But when they heard that he was alive and have been seen by her, they would not believe it.” (Mark 16:11)
We should not be surprised by the incredulity of the eleven, but rather consoled. If they who had witnessed the life and death of Jesus found his resurrection impossible to believe, until they had seen him with their own eyes, then I can have compassion on myself when I must…
Friday, 10 April 2026
What gift do I bring? – Easter Friday
“Bring some of the fish that you have just caught.” (John 21:10)
An invitation to a celebration that requires us to bring a gift, can require of us some serious thinking about what is an appropriate gift for this person. The deeper our connection to the person the more thought we put into the gift. We wish to honour the person appropriately….
Thursday, 9 April 2026
A Peace the World cannot Give – Easter Thursday
“Peace be with you” (Luke24:36)
We live in a world of deep longing. There are so many, out there, who are lost and lonely. Like an Easter egg hunt, we go looking and searching for meaning here, there and everywhere. Today’s Eastertide Gospel has Jesus profoundly present to the searching and lost disciples. And what…
Wednesday, 8 April 2026
Take Heart as He draws close to us on the road – Easter Wednesday
Were not our hearts burning within us? (Luke 24:32)
There are many things I could write about today. Like how the discipes didn’t recognise Jesus, and how I have had many times when He was close to me but I didn’t see Him. Or the power of the encounter urging the diciples to return to Jerusalem, and how moments…
Tuesday, 7 April 2026
An Invitation to Dance – Easter Tuesday
“‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.” (John 20:17)
I love to dance. It brings me great joy – the way the rhythm moves through me and how my body responds to the music. Even more so, the joy of dancing with another person. When I married my Greek husband, I learned the energetic, rhythmic steps of Greek dancing,…
Monday, 6 April 2026
Wonder, awe…and hush money! – Easter Monday
So they (the women) left the tomb quickly with fear and great joy, and ran to tell his disciples’ (Matthew 28:8)
It is an interesting fact that in none of the four canonical Gospels is there an eye-witness account of the actual resurrection. The crucifixion is described in much detail and in graphic terms, yet the resurrection relies on the testament of others and, indeed, after the fact. Have you ever…
Sunday, 5 April 2026
Easter Faith – EASTER SUNDAY
Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb. So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him.” Then Peter and the other disciple set out and went toward the tomb. (John 20:1-3)
Mary Magdalene was one of the few who stayed beside Jesus beneath the Cross on Calvary; and she is the first of all the witnesses to Easter. A less likely witness is hard to imagine. At this time, women were not permitted to give evidence in a court of law;…