Each day during Refugee Week, we offer Mass with prayer and reflection. Today, we pray for for good relationships between people of different faiths The Thought (Matthew 6:7-15) On 17 July 1757, Benjamin Franklin wrote to his wife after narrowly avoiding a shipwreck. “Were I a Roman Catholic, perhaps I should on this occasion vowContinue reading “What would you build?”
Category Archives: Daily Reflection
Our shared home
Each day during Refugee Week, we offer Mass with prayer and reflection. Today, we pray for our care of and concern for the world The Thought (Matthew 6:1-6,16-18) Millions of people are displaced because of the climate crisis. The UN Refuge Agency says that “As extreme weather and environmental conditions worsen with global heating, theyContinue reading “Our shared home”
No place to call home
Each day during Refugee Week, we offer Mass with prayer and reflection. Today, we pray for those who are homeless and all for whom ‘home’ is not a safe place to be. The Thought (Matthew 5:43-48) “Have no fear of perfection,” said the artist Salvador Dali, ‘you will never reach it.” Yet, it’s the strivingContinue reading “No place to call home”
Happiness and Freedom
Today, as we prepare for our ‘Justice Cafe’ and welcome Jim Stewart from ‘Open Doors’ which supports persecuted Christians, we offer Mass for Christians who experience persecution throughout the world, and for religious freedom everywhere
The beauty that remains
Wednesday 31 May, 2023 | The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary |Readings: Zephaniah 3:14-18; Responsorial Psalm: Isaiah 12; Luke 1:39-56 (You can find these in full on the Universalis website – Click here) Writing from her hiddenness in the attic of an Amsterdam house, Anne Frank wrote, “I don’t think of all the misery,Continue reading “The beauty that remains”
What about us?
Tuesday 30 May, 2023 | Eighth Week in Ordinary Time |Readings: Ecclesiasticus 35:2-15; Psalm 49(50):5-8,14,23; Mark 10:28-31 (You can find these in full on the Universalis website – Click here) Speaking of his fight against injustice as he led the civil rights movement in the US, Martin Luther King said, “Human progress is neither automaticContinue reading “What about us?”
Shaped by the love of God
Saturday 27 May, 2023 | Seventh Week of Easter |Readings: Acts 28:16-20,30-31; Psalm 10(11):4-5,7; John 21:20-25 (You can find these in full on the Universalis website – Click here) In 2022, Penguin Publishers asked their readers to tell them about their favourite classic books, and they created a list of 100 must read classics featuringContinue reading “Shaped by the love of God”
Shaped by the love of God
Friday 25 May, 2023 | Seventh Week of Easter |Readings: Acts 22:30,23:6-11; Psalm 15(16):1-2,5,7-11; John 17:20-26 (You can find these in full on the Universalis website – Click here) In Dylan Thomas’s play for voices, Under Milk Wood, we are given a glimpse into the lives of the residents of Llareggub, beginning when it isContinue reading “Shaped by the love of God”
No more questions
Friday 19 May, 2023 | Sixth Week of Easter |Readings: Acts 18:9-18; Psalm 46(47):2-7; John 16:20-23 (You can find these in full on the Universalis website – Click here) C.S Lewis, the renowned author of the The Chronicles of Narnia, also wrote many Christian books for adults, including the book, A Grief Observed which wasContinue reading “No more questions”
Faith seeking understanding
Wednesday 17 May, 2023 | Sixth Week of Easter |Readings: Acts 17:15,22-18:1; Psalm 148:1-2,11-14; John 16:12-15 (You can find these in full on the Universalis website – Click here) “When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside youContinue reading “Faith seeking understanding”
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