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Ouch the standard of judgement is high!

Twenty-second Sunday Luke 14:7-14 Once again Jesus uses something very ordinary to teach us about Heaven. This time he’s observing people at a dinner. So he takes just that – […]

Using a dinner party to teach us about Heaven

22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time Luke 14:1,7-14 Once again Jesus uses something very ordinary to teach us about Heaven. This time he’s observing people at a dinner. So he takes […]

Will there be only a few saved?

21st Sunday in Ordinary Time Luke 13:22-30 Jesus doesn’t answer the question. Instead he says “try your best to enter by the narrow door because many will try to enter […]

The difficulty with putting family – anything or anybody – before Jesus

20th Sunday in Ordinary Time Jesus the cause of dissension! Luke 12:49-53 Here again we run into the concept of division, separation, which is a recurring theme in the teaching […]

Thirteenth Sunday (C)

Sometimes when the force of Jesus teaching penetrates, I’m amazed that there’s a Christian anywhere – even more amazed that there’s anybody at Mass at all!   It’s as if […]

Misreading the signs of the times!

Yes, almost everywhere parish life is a struggle, but fear not, everything is in hand. Here in St. Senan’s we’re struggling financially, we’re struggling to get a days adoration covered […]

Pentecost makes everything much too black and white!

This is so simple.   It’s nearly too simple for many of us. I suspect it’s much too black and white!   The Spirit arrives into our lives – remember […]

Second Sunday of Easter (C)

The context is death. They’ve seen Jesus – the one they’d given so much of themselves to – brutally murdered. They were terrified, for them this is terror. For all […]

So you think it’s some kind of magic? It’s pure love silly 🙃

Love your enemies…   Do good to those who hate you…   Bless those who curse you…   Pray for those who treat you badly…   To the man who […]

Fragments from my diary – too much free-loading

So… I’ve been writing about the severity of God’s justice… or in other words the price that Love has to pay for each and every injustice. And about discovering the […]