Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time               Year B                         10th October 2021 Lectionary Readings:   Amos 5 v6-7, 10-15;   Psalm 90 v12-17;   Hebrews 4 v12-16;             Mark 10 v17-31. Money can’t buy you love. In Mark’s account of Jesus’ encounter with a rich man, (a ‘young’ man in Matthew’s account), Jesus acknowledges that the unnamed man is sincere…

Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time                        Year B                         3rd October 2021. Lectionary Readings: Genesis 2 v18-24;   Psalm 8;  Hebrews 1 v1-4, 2 v5-12;  Mark 10 v2-16. Bonds of love. Jesus said, “I promise you that you cannot get into God’s kingdom unless you accept it the way a child does.” (Mark 10 v15). Babies and…

Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time.                Year B                         26th September 2021. Lectionary Readings: Numbers 11 v4-29;  Psalm 19 v7-14;  James 5 v13-20;  Mark 9 v38-50. For and Against. John said, “Teacher, we saw a man using your name to force demons out of people. But he was not one of us, and we told…

Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time                  Year B                             19th September 2021 Lectionary Readings: Jeremiah 11 v18-20;  Psalm 54;  James 3 v13-4 v3, 7-8a; Mark 9 v30-37. Welcome Jesus said, “When you welcome even a child because of me, you welcome me. And when you welcome me, you welcome the one who sent me.” (Mark 9…

Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time              Year B                         12th September 2021 Lectionary readings:   Isaiah 50 v4-9a;   Psalm 116 v1-9;   James 3 v1-12;   Mark 8 v27-38. Guard your tongue! “My dear friends, with our tongues we speak both praises and curses. We praise our Lord and Father, and we curse people who were created to…

Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time                 Year B                         5th September 2021 Lectionary Readings:   Isaiah 35 v4-7a;    Psalm 146;    James 2 v1-17;    Mark 7 v24-37. Compassion and Faith. In the passage from Mark’s gospel we read that Jesus had travelled from Galilee towards the Mediterranean Sea and was staying near the town of Tyre in Phoenicia,…

Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time                          Year B                         29th August 2021 Lectionary Readings: Deuteronomy 4 v1-2, 6-9;        Psalm 15;        James 1 v17-27;       Mark 7 v1-8, 14-15, 21-23. Listen and Obey! “God will bless you in everything you do, if you listen and obey and don’t just hear and forget.” (James 1 v25b). The theme of…

Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary time                   Year B                                     22nd August 2021 Lectionary readings: Joshua 24 v1-2a, 14-18;      Psalm 34 v15-22;      Ephesians 6 v10-20;      John 6 v56-69. Eternal Life and Salvation In the reading from John’s gospel, Simon Peter says “Lord, there is no one else that we can go to! Your words give eternal life.…

Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time                      Year B                                     15th August 2021 Lectionary Readings: Proverbs 9 v1-6;  Psalm 34 v9-14;   Ephesians 5 v15-20;   John 6 v51-58. ‘Life giving bread’ Jesus said “I am the bread that gives life!” (John 6 v48). Jesus offers us food for our hearts, our minds, and our souls. “Everyone who eats…

Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time                                 Year B                        8th August 2021 Lectionary Readings: 1 Kings 19 v4-8; Psalm 34 v1-8; Ephesians 4 v25-5v2; John 6 v35, 41-51. Living with fear, despair and doubt. In order to understand the depth of Elijah’s despair recorded in today’s Old Testament reading, we need to recap on the story so…