Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time                 Year B                         8th September 2024. 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                        1st September 2024. 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                                     25th August 2024. 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                                     18th August 2024. 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                        11th August 2024. 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…

Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time                    Year B                                     4th August 2024. Lectionary Readings: Exodus 16 v2-4, 9-15;    Psalm 78 v23-29;    Ephesians 4 v1-16;    John 6 v24-35. God’s response to our hunger. The people complain to Moses, their leader (and God’s representative), that they have been rescued from slavery in Egypt, only to starve in…

Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time                   Year B                                     28th July 2024 Lectionary Readings: 2 kings 4 v42-44; Psalm 145 v10-18; Ephesians 3 v14-21; John 6 v1-21. Caring and sharing. ‘One boy brought loaves and fishes no other food was there,but Jesus fed the thousands and still had bread to spare.The miracle of plenty soon spread…

Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time                                   Year B                        21st July 2024. Lectionary Readings: Jeremiah 23 v1-6; Psalm 23; Ephesians 2 v11-22;  Mark 6 v30-34, 53-56. Meeting the needs of the people. Mark says, “When Jesus got out of the boat, he saw the large crowd that was like sheep without a shepherd. He felt sorry for…

Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time                        Year B                                     14th July 2024. Lectionary Readings: Amos 7 v7-15;  Psalm 85 v8-13;  Ephesians 1 v3-14;  Mark 6 v14-29. Measuring up to God’s standard of justice. Amos writes, ‘The lord showed me a vision of himself standing besides a wall and holding a string with a weight tied to…

Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time                    Year B                                     7th July 2024. Lectionary Readings:  Ezekiel 2 v1-5;    Psalm 123;    2 Corinthians 12 v2-10;    Mark 6 v1-13. Reading between the lines. In the first part of today’s gospel reading, Mark tells us that Jesus is in his home town of Nazareth. It is the Sabbath day and…