Tag Archive | God
Doubt and faith: Healthy tension
Reflection on the Feast of St Thomas, the Apostle (3 July 2012) Morning prayer of the Church Evening prayer of the Church Today is the feast of St Thomas, the apostle. He is popularly dubbed as the ‘doubting Thomas’ […]
Birth of John the Baptist 2012
The Church offers us two sets of readings for this feast – one for the vigil, and one for the day itself. I have decided this year to use those prescribed for the vigil simply because they are less familiar to us than the others. In particular you will notice that the gospel stops short […]
Pentecost: Empowering the Church
Pentecost B 2012 We might say that the descent of the Holy Spirit on the disciples liberated them from their fear and transformed them into apostles, men with a mission. Not for nothing do we say that this feast marks the birthday of the Church. Let’s look more closely at what today’s readings tell us. […]
Seeing God through our neighbours…
6th Sunday of Easter B 2012 It was as a result of a vision that Peter agreed to go to the house of the centurion Cornelius. In the vision he had seen a huge sheet lowered from heaven, filled with all sorts of animals and birds, and he’d heard a voice telling him to kill and […]