Twenty-fifth Sunday of Lent: Is 55:6-9; Ps 145; Phil 1:20c-24, 27a; Mt 20:1-16a
Spiritual Life
The Word This Week
We long to be treated graciously, but our graciousness to others is strictly rationed
Friday, 16 September 2011
The word this week
We do harm to ourselves when we refuse to forgive
Friday, 9 September 2011
The word this week
Twenty-fourth Sunday of the Year: Sir 27:30-28:7; Ps 103; Rm 14:7-9; Mt 18:21-35
We ought to confront all that is contrary to the Gospel
Wednesday, 31 August 2011
The word this week
Twenty-third Sunday of Year: Ez 33:7-9; Ps 95; Rm 13:8-10; Mt 18:15-20
‘Do not model yourselves on the behaviour of the world’
Thursday, 25 August 2011
The word this week
Twenty-second Sunday of the Year. Jer 20:7-9; Ps 63; Rm 12:1-2; Mt 16:21-27
Can we find a place for Christ in society after the riots?
Thursday, 18 August 2011
The word this week
Twenty-first Sunday of Lent. Is 22:19-23; Ps 138; Rm 11:33-36; Mt 16:13-20
In Mary’s Assumption the salvation for which we long has drawn closer
Monday, 15 August 2011
The word this week
The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary: Revelation 11: 19 & 12: 1-6; 1 Cor 15: 20-26; Lk 1: 39-56
Jesus is the peace at the heart of our fearfulness
Friday, 5 August 2011
The word this week
Nineteenth Sunday of Lent: 1 Kgs 19:9a, 11-13a; Ps 85; Rm 9:1-5; Mt 14:22-33
The longing that cannot be satisfied by material things
Friday, 29 July 2011
The word this week
Eighteenth Sunday of Year: Is 55:1-3; Ps 145; Rm 8:35, 37-39; Mt 14:13-21
The question ‘what do you want?’ lays bare the deepest truths about ourselves
Friday, 22 July 2011
The word this week
Seventeenth Sunday of the Year: 1 Kgs 3:5, 7-12; Ps 119; Rm 8:28-30; Mt 13:44-46
We should always begin prayer with a conscious surrender to the Holy Spirit
Friday, 15 July 2011
The word this week
Sixteenth Sunday of the Year: Wis 12:13 & 16-19; Rm 8: 26-27; Mt 13:24-43
Our political masters need to get this: theological problems can only have theological solutions
By Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith