by Giltus Mathias | Feb 5, 2025 | Daily Reflections
St Agatha Readings Hebrew 12:4-7, 11-15Mark 6:1-6 Reflection Today, as we celebrate the memory of St. Agatha, a 3rd-century Christian martyr, our Gospel presents us with Jesus being rejected by his own community at Nazareth. Often, when we hear of the persecution of...
by Giltus Mathias | Feb 4, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Readings Hebrews 12:1-4Mark 5:21-43 Reflection Today’s readings speak of shedding anything that weighs us down and looking to Jesus for the hope that only he can offer. The woman who went through 12 years of pain and suffering is a woman to be honoured, for she did...
by Giltus Mathias | Feb 3, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Readings: Hebrews 11:32-40Mark 5:1-20 Reflection Two thoughts immediately spring to mind as I contemplate this gospel story, dramatic as it is in keeping with Mark’s style and approach. The visit of Jesus to the territory of the Gerasenes forms the background to the...
by Giltus Mathias | Feb 2, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Presentation of the Lord Readings: Malachi 3: 1-4Hebrews 2: 14-18Luke 2: 22-40 Reflection Today we celebrate the feast of the Presentation of the Lord. Pope Saint John Paul II designated the feast of the Presentation of the Lord as the annual World Day of Consecrated...
by Giltus Mathias | Feb 1, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Readings Hebrews 11:1-2,8-19Mark 4:35-41 Reflection In today’s readings, we see a theme of faith. In Mark, the disciples are caught in a storm, overwhelmed by fear, as waves crash around them. Though Jesus is in the boat with them, they cry out, “Teacher, do you not...
by Giltus Mathias | Jan 31, 2025 | Daily Reflections
St John Bosco Readings: Hebrews 10:32-39Mark 4:26-34 Reflection Mark’s Gospel today follows a few stories of illegal cures, the stirring of concern for Jesus from his family, criticism from the righteous lawyers and Jesus’ selection of 12 special followers, to whom he...
by Giltus Mathias | Jan 30, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Readings Hebrews 10: 19-25Mark 4: 21-25 Reflection William Barclay points out that the same four sayings of Jesus in the four verses of today’s gospel are separated and spread out in Matthew’s gospel, in Mt 5:15, Mt 10;26, Mt 7:2 and Mt 13:12 (and repeated) in Mt...
by Giltus Mathias | Jan 29, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Readings: Hebrews 10: 11-18Mark 4: 1-20 Reflection: God’s lavish love is on full display in today’s Gospel. As the sower, God willingly sets out to sow the seed in every direction and on every piece of soil. It would almost seem as though God was wasting so much seed...
by Giltus Mathias | Jan 28, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Readings: Hebrews 10:1-10Mark 3:31-35 Reflection: Who are my mother and brothers? Who are my sisters and cousins? Who are my family by birth or by faith? (Mark) We are the family of Jesus through baptism. (water, desire or blood) Look around the church at those who...
by Giltus Mathias | Jan 27, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Readings: Hebrews 9:15,24-28Mark 3:22-30 Reflection: Today’s readings bring home to us the decisiveness, the once-for-all character, of Jesus’ life and death. The reading from Hebrews 9 emphasises that ‘he has made his appearance once and for all, now at the end of...