by Giltus Mathias | Dec 31, 2024 | Daily Reflections
Readings: 1 John 2:18-21John 1:1-18 Reflection The first reading paints a vivid picture of a faith community deeply fractured, a situation that resonates with today’s Church. Yet, this very struggle offers us a call to renewal. John’s epistle reveals a small Christian...
by Giltus Mathias | Dec 30, 2024 | Daily Reflections
Readings 1 John 2: 12-17Luke 2: 36-40 Reflection “By the end of the first two chapters of his Gospel, every one of Luke’s readers will have found someone in the story with whom they identify” Biblical Scholar N T Wright suggests that by the end of the first two...
by Giltus Mathias | Dec 29, 2024 | Daily Reflections
Feast of Holy Family Readings: 1 Samuel 1: 20-22, 24-281 John 3: 1-2, 21-24Luke 2: 41-52 Reflection: Over this, Christmastide families have come together. Some may be living near each other whilst others have come from far away. It is this very time of the year that...
by Giltus Mathias | Dec 28, 2024 | Daily Reflections
Feast of Holy Innocents Readings: 1 John 1:5-2.2Matthew 2:13-18 Reflection: The joy and peace and celebration of the visit of the Magi quickly dissolve as the angel once more speaks to Joseph in a dream. Get up, take the child and his mother with you, and escape into...
by Giltus Mathias | Dec 27, 2024 | Daily Reflections
St John Readings: 1 John 1:1-4John 20:2-8 Reflection: Today’s readings, marking the feast of St John, apostle and evangelist, focus on testimony. Testimony, from the Latin ‘testis’, a witness, or ‘one who has seen’, is the act of passing on to others what we have...
