by Giltus Mathias | Dec 31, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Readings: 1 John 2:18-21John 1:1-18 Reflection Here we are on the last day of the year. By tonight, calendars will be turned, numbers will change, and many of us will quietly, or noisily, say goodbye to a year that has held both grace and grief. And yet the Gospel we...
by Giltus Mathias | Dec 30, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Readings 1 John 2: 12-17Luke 2: 36-40 Reflection In the drama surrounding the birth of Jesus, an array of characters help to create for us an appreciation that this child will be ‘the one’ who has been expected, yet not one most expect! The announcement of his birth...
by Giltus Mathias | Dec 29, 2025 | Daily Reflections, Sunday Homilies
Readings: 1 John 2: 3-11 Luke 2: 22-35 Reflection: Today is 5th day in the Octave of Christmas. It is another Christmas Day – another day when Jesus as a baby is revealed to the world and today it is through the aged Simeon in the Temple that Jesus’ revelation is...
by Giltus Mathias | Dec 28, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Holy Family Readings: Sirach 3:2-6,12-14Colossians 3:12-21Matthew 2:13-15, 19-23 Reflection: Alzheimer’s disease comes to mind on this day 28th December back in 2009. It is the day of my mother, Frances, died from this incurable and confusing illness. Her sister Mary...
by Giltus Mathias | Dec 27, 2025 | Daily Reflections
St John, the Apostle and Evangelist Readings: 1 John 1:1-4John 20:2-8 Reflection: Today is the feast day of St John, apostle and evangelist, and the first reading and Gospel express fundamental themes of the Johannine tradition in the New Testament.  The first...
