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This week’s gospel follows on from last week when Peter professed his faith that Jesus was the “Messiah, he Son of the living God.” Quite a statement. Jesus qualified this by telling Peter and [...]

The idea of a Leader encompasses a person with inner resourcefulness yet knows where to obtain information, listens attentively to others, clear headed in decision making but also asks for [...]

Our Gospel this weekend is the confrontation by a Canaanite woman and Jesus and his disciples. The Canaanite woman’s daughter is all and she has come to Jesus for a miracle shouting, “Sir, Son of [...]

St Matthew in this Sunday’s Gospel presents us with a pictogram: he is writing about his Church and the relentless confrontation which it faces daily. This confrontation naturally strains the [...]

Our Feast of the Transfiguration of Jesus is one of those celebrations that interrupts the normal Sunday pattern of Readings. Our feast comes at the end of Jesus public ministry. It is referenced [...]

More PrintAugust 2, 2017 7:30 pm - 8:30 pmWe reflect on the upcoming Gospel and what it meant at the time it happened, what it means to us today and how we could be good Disciples of God. Click [...]

The Gospel this weekend focuses on Jesus’ parables about the Kingdom of Heaven (God) which is the central and only message of Jesus, “The time has come and the kingdom of God is close at hand. [...]

Mary Magdalen is the unsuspected witness to the Resurrection of Jesus.  Mary, more than the apostles, is mentioned in five of the six resurrection narratives in the Gospel tradition.  Peter, on [...]

It is estimated that we speak, on average, 150 words per minute.  Multiply that by 60×24 and we have been surrounded by 135,000 words during a conscious day.  How many of these we have [...]

Success is a quirky reality in our daily living. We all strive, one way or another, to be successful: getting our daily work done, completing tasks we set ourselves and finding satisfaction when [...]