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Jesus is real: Not an Ilusion
Easter III B 2012 The gospel passage we read today is the last we shall read on the Sundays after Easter relating appearances of Our risen Lord. This one occurs near the end of St Luke’s gospel. Again the emphasis is on the joy of the disciples. Their joy was so great that they could […]
Reflection for the 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time
17th Sunday of the Year (A) A young man in his mid-twenties, from a well-to-do family, was strolling one day when he met a deformed leper. At first he would have felt an unholy revulsion towards the leper but something in him insisted that he would not only give alms to the leper but also […]
Reflecting the gospel today…
“It’s not dying for faith that’s so hard, it’s living up to it.” William Makepeace Thackeray seems to have captured the essence of being a believer. We believe because we are alive, not dead. Belief is useless for the dead. As a believer, as Christians at that, we are called to live up with this […]