by Giltus Mathias | Jun 30, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Readings Genesis 18: -16-33 Matthew 8: 18-22 Reflection Today’s gospel is immediately preceded by Jesus teaching a large crowd and then as he returned to Capernaum, he cured, a leper, a Roman centurion and Peter’s mother-in-law. Crowds of locals gathered outside...
by Giltus Mathias | Jun 29, 2025 | Daily Reflections, Sunday Homilies
Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, Apostles Readings: Acts 12: 1-11 2 Timothy 4: 6-8, 17-18 Matthew 16: 13-19 Reflection: Today is the Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul – the two apostles that took the Good News to the Jewish and Gentile communities, starting in Israel...
by Giltus Mathias | Jun 28, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Readings: Genises 18:1-15 Matthew 8:5-17 Reflection: Abraham is asked ‘Is anything too difficult for the Lord? At the same time next year I will visit you again and Sarah will have a son’. Perhaps with the violence taking place in the Middle East our Lord needs to...
by Giltus Mathias | Jun 27, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Readings: Ezekiel 34:11-16 Romans 5:5b-11 Luke 15:3-7 Reflection: Pope Francis concluded his last encyclical Dilexit Nos: He Loved Us, on the Human and Divine Love in the Heart of Jesus Christ (October 2024) by emphasizing the link...
by Giltus Mathias | Jun 26, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Readings: Genesis 16:1-12,15-16 Matthew 7:21-29 Reflection: Today’s gospel could be viewed as good advice from a ‘tradie’. Building your house on a firm foundation was good advice 2000 years ago, and it’s good advice now. Unfortunately, with the effects of climate...
