Sunday Reflections

Weekly reflections from Fr Michael based on the liturgy of the Word of that Sunday

FIFTH SUNDAY IN LENT (B)

Jeremiah 31.31 – 34Psalm 51Hebrews 5. 7 – 9John 12. 20 -33 One focus during Lent is to reflect on our own death and to see our way through it. We all must die, as much as we don’t like the fact. We try to hide it, dodge it, deny it. Yet we can’t in fact escape it....

Fourth Sunday of Lent (B)

March 10God So Loved the World 2 Chronicles 36. 14 – 17a, 19 – 23Psalm 137Ephesians 2. 4 – 10John 3. 14 – 21 We are half way through March and already there is light in the evenings beyond six o’clock. We have longer daylight to look forward to, especially when the...

Third Sunday of Lent (B)

Exodus 20: 1 – 17Responsorial Psalm: 191 Corinthians 1.18, 22 – 25John 2. 13 – 25 Christ arrives at the Jerusalem Temple for the Passover. The temple was under construction for almost half a century. To gain admission into the temple one had to pay half a shocked. To...