Until this point the word “Christ” or “Messiah” was packed with multiple meanings for the Jewish people. It carried memories of kings like David and Solomon. It held the promise…

The Scripture readings this weekend remind us that we need the gifts of sight, of hearing and of speech to see as Christ sees, to hear as Christ hears, to…

In the Gospel for one of the weekday masses not so long ago, there is a passage in which Christ is answering questions from a crowd of people, and one…

These Scriptural readings underline for us that point a which a person has to describe whether all of the good examples, the advice, and the influence that have been offered…

Did you ever wonder as you were looking at huge skyscrapers, or going by glass enclosed buildings, or passing through ultra-modern apartment blocks, what significance your religion has to any…

Once again, this weekend the liturgy centres on the image of the Bread of Life, the Eucharist.   Slowly, those who heard Jesus began to get beyond the immediacy of…

This Gospel passage that we have just heard is another in a five or six week-long series of readings all taken from the sixth Chapter of John’s Gospel.  Taken together…

Today’s Gospel is from St John’s Sixth Chapter, parts of which will be read for the next four Sundays.   Today’s story is one of the few told by all…

The prophets and people of the Old Testament had to wait, patiently and faithfully, for God to move.   Then, of course, God did move.  God sent Christ, with the…

It is fair to say that usually the word ‘prophet’ makes us think of one of two types of figures. Either we picture someone like John the Baptist or Jeremiah…