Today we celebrate the mystery of the Holy Trinity. It is a mystery that is part of our Catholic DNA, but we seldom reflect on it. When we make the sign of the Cross, we say: “In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.”
There has been a saying going around our Community that the Feast of the Ascension reminds us that Jesus decided thereafter “to work from home”.
One of the exciting events in Track and Field is the 4 X 100 metre relay. There’s a team of four athletes and they’re standing 100 metres apart and the first athlete runs for 100 metres then they pass the baton to the next athlete and the fourth athlete gets the baton and runs straight until the finish line.
The Easter Season is almost drawing to a close with the feast of Pentecost approaching in two weeks’ time. Next week we will celebrate the solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord.
The Gospels show Jesus teaching the people of His time about His Father using parables, stories, and metaphors that they were very familiar with.
Who is Jesus Christ? This has been an age-old question that many people particularly theologians have tried to answer.
When I was learning how to drive, my instructor insisted that before changing lanes or before entering the traffic, it was not enough to look at the side mirrors but also to turn my head to the back of my shoulder so that I would be able to cover my “blind spot”.
Thomas’s exclamation, after seeing the risen Jesus face to face, dissolves his doubt and fills him with such faith that it transforms his whole life.
During this Easter time, I have become increasingly aware of how caring and tender Christ is towards those who are close to him.
As a young altar server, I loved Palm Sunday. There would be a large group of us servers, all dressed in a red cassock and surplice, and we were given a palm to wave.
Most of us when we were children may have tried to figure out what would happen if we put a seed in a glass of water.
We have reached the mid-point of our Lenten journey, a holy penitential season. This Sunday, we celebrate “Laetare Sunday.”
There is some reassuring and challenging teaching presented to us in the readings of today’s liturgy!
The disciples in their early years of preaching must have spoken often about the experience that Peter, James and John had on the mountain when Jesus was praying. Fifty years later they were still telling the same story about the transfiguration when the three Gospels were written.
Temptations are a regular part of our lives. When I was still living in Macquarie Fields, five days a week, I’d go out in the morning and take an hour walk.