1st Sunday of Lent – The temptation of an illusory happiness

Introduction In common parlance, to be tempted means to feel attracted to what is forbidden. It…

1st Sunday of Lent – FIRST IMPRESSIONS 2

We are not computers with pre-installed programs wired into us. God could have created us that…

1st Sunday of Lent – FIRST IMPRESSIONS

Lent is a time when those catechumens (“elect”) who are preparing for Christian initiation at the…

1st Sunday of Lent

We are now on the First Sunday of Lent by which we are intending these 40…

1st Sunday of Lent

THE GOSPEL of today’s Mass always features the temptations of Jesus in the desert.  It clearly…

1st Sunday of Lent – The temptation of an illusory happiness

Introduction In common parlance, to be tempted means to feel attracted to what is forbidden. It…

8th Sunday of the year – He Saw That It Was Good

‘You cannot be a slave to God and to Mammon.’ In today’s Gospel Jesus shows us…

8th Sunday of the year

The poetic imagination of the biblical writers seems to know no bounds in their attempt to…

8th Sunday of the year – FIRST IMPRESSIONS

Did Jesus tell his disciples not to worry “about your life, what you will eat or…

8th Sunday of the year

THE GOSPEL IS A STRONG CHALLENGE to the lifestyle that prevails in most of our cities…