by Giltus Mathias | Jan 31, 2024 | Daily Reflections
St John Bosco Readings: 2 Samuel 24:2,8-17Mark 6:1-6 Reflection In 1951, in working-class Saint Bridget’s Parish, Father James Wood established a Don Bosco Club. He held our attention with his dynamic personality, some games, and a few good magic tricks. Statues...
by Giltus Mathias | Jan 30, 2024 | Daily Reflections
Readings: 2 Samuel 18: 9-10; 14, 24-25;30- 19:3Mark 5: 21-43 Reflection In today’s gospel, the role of touch is significant, especially because one would normally be contaminated by the sickness of a person he or she touched. Jairus asks Jesus to lay his hands on his...
by Giltus Mathias | Jan 29, 2024 | Daily Reflections
Readings: 2 Samuel 15: 13-14, 30; 16: 5-13Mark 5: 1-20 Reflection: In today’s Gospel Jesus is confronted by a raving man possessed by an evil spirit. This man was so out of control that even iron fetters could not hold him down. The on-looking disciples must have been...
by Giltus Mathias | Jan 28, 2024 | Daily Reflections
4th Sunday in Ordinary time Readings: Deuteronomy 18:15-201 Corinthians 7:32-35Mark 1:21-28 Reflection: Deuteronomy 18:15-20 Moses said, ‘Your God will raise up for you a prophet, from amongst you and to the prophet you must listen.’ Psalm 94 If today you...
by Giltus Mathias | Jan 27, 2024 | Daily Reflections
Readings: 2 Samuel 12:1-7, 10-17Mark 4:35-41 Reflection: King David had slept with – and impregnated – Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah the Hittite; to hide what he had done, he encouraged Uriah to sleep with his wife after returning from the battlefield; frustrated, he...
