Charity Reflections

Readings: Acts 2: 42-47; Psalm 118; 1 Peter 1:3-9; John 20: 19-31 In Easter’s light, the Scriptures today call us to open our minds and hearts wider, ever wider. Signs and images of God’s incredible and tender mercy abound in us and around us. Imagine what our...

Easter Sunday: Acts 10:34a, 37-43; Psalm 118; Colossians 3:1-4 or 1 Corinthians 5:6b-8; John 20:1-9 I wake on Easter morning, feeling stuffed. For the past three days I’ve been feasting - not on food but on sights and sounds, symbols and songs. Thursday - bread broken...

A selection of readings from Genesis, Exodus, Isaiah, Baruch, Ezekiel; Romans 6:3-11; Psalm 118; Matthew 28:1-10 Saturday, the Sabbath, after the day when the world fell apart. The disciples were cowering in fear, crushed with grief. For them, it was all over. They...

With Jesus, we live the three sacred days of this Holy Week – a week of acclamation and betrayal, of promises broken and hopes restored, a week of blessing and breaking bread and bodies, a week of words and silence, of tears and cries, a week of companionship and...

Readings: Isaiah 50:4-7; Psalm 22; Philippians 2:6-11; Matthew 26:14-27:66 You can’t walk into the magnificent Chapel of the Immaculate Conception at Mount St. Vincent without coming face to face with Constantino Brumidi’s imposing painting of the Crucifixion in the...

Readings:  Ezekiel 37:12-14; Psalm 130; Romans 8:8-11; John 11: 1-45 Behold this man, Jesus. As he began his ministry, he laid out his platform: to bring good news to the poor, liberty to captives, sight to the blind, freedom to the oppressed.  This mission...

READINGS: 1 Samuel 16: 1b, 6–7, 10–13a,  Psalm 23,  Ephesians  5: 8–14, John 9: 1–41 Few Gospels are more fascinating than the healing of the man born blind both from a literary and pastoral perspective. This miracle occurs during the Feast of...

Readings: Exodus 17: 3-7; Psalm 95; Romans 5: 1-2, 5-8; John 4: 5-42 “Give me a drink.” Today’s familiar Gospel story teems with themes and images to unpack and ponder: a model of encounter, a lesson in Jesus’ evangelizing strategy, a reflection on giving and...

We should always give you thanks, almighty and eternal God, for you do not cease to spur us on to possess a more abundant life and, being rich in mercy, you constantly offer pardon, and call on sinners to trust in your forgiveness alone. Never did you turn away from...