The Gospel reading for this weekend can be a puzzling one.  It was for the people of Christ’s own time as well. They had for centuries put their faith in…

The Gospel this weekend addresses the issue of the conflict that can arise from time to time because of the interdependence of his people. Christ is pictured as discussing just…

If you were looking through the Scriptures to find a couple of passages that make Christianity sound like a dangerous business, you couldn’t do much better than to settle on…

The First reading and the Gospel this weekend are quite similar.  The prophet Isaiah says what God’s appointed shall shut, no one shall open, what he shall open, no one…

The Gospel reading this weekend gives us a rather strange image of Christ and he even seems, at first, to be outright offensive.  Christ is approached by a woman whose…

There is a story told that once a visitor came to St Teresa of Avila and asked, “How should I picture God when I pray?  What about him is most…

Perhaps one of the biggest challenges that faces anyone in the process of growing up emotionally is that of learning to trust. It is such a simple sounding word but…

Storytelling was a common way of teaching at the time of Christ.  Only a very few of the people could read and write, so learning of any kind was largely…

In the Gospel this weekend Christ speaks to one of the most perplexing mysteries of human living, the mystery of evil.  All of us base our sense of the purposefulness…

One of the things that always strikes me as I read through the Gospels is how close a parallel there so frequently is between the teaching of the Gospel and…