Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B 22nd September 2024. 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…
This week, our 10 minute service reflects on Galatians 6:14.
Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B 15th September 2024. 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…
This week, our 10 minute service reflects on John 8:31-32.
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,…
This weeks 10 minute service reflects on Isaiah 16:28 – See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone.
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…
This week, our 10 minute service reflects on revelation 4:8.
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.…
The Prayer Handbook points out that today is kept, in the Catholic Church particularly, as the Assumption of The Blessed Virgin Mary. It is the day when the mother of Jesus ‘fell asleep’ and of her bodily assumption into heaven. That language is outside my comfort zone and for years would have deterred me from…