Daily Reflection, February 5, 2025

Daily Reflection, February 5, 2025

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...
Daily Reflection, February 4, 2025

Daily Reflection, February 4, 2025

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...
Daily Reflection, February 3, 2025

Daily Reflection, February 3, 2025

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...
Daily Reflection, February 2, 2025

Daily Reflection, February 2, 2025

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...
Daily Reflection, February 1, 2025

Daily Reflection, February 1, 2025

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...
Daily Reflection, January 31, 2025

Daily Reflection, January 31, 2025

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...
Daily Reflection, January 30, 2025

Daily Reflection, January 30, 2025

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...
Daily Reflection, January 29, 2025

Daily Reflection, January 29, 2025

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...
Daily Reflection, January 28, 2025

Daily Reflection, January 28, 2025

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...
Daily Reflection, January 27, 2025

Daily Reflection, January 27, 2025

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...