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Scripture Reflections
Saturday, 21 February 2015 13:21

First Sunday of Lent - 2015

Temptations are a regular part of our lives. Five days a week, I go out in the morning and take an hour walk around the corner here in Macquarie Fields. 

I remember seeing a cat with a little bell on her neck and it really annoyed the cat.

According to Mark, today is the first day of Jesus’ public ministry, which is filled with teaching and healing.

Jesus’ kind of teaching was a regular source of amazement to others! If we go through the pages of the Bible we would be struck by how many times it records people’s amazement at Jesus.

I used to think that the story concerning Jesus’ call of the first four disciples by the Sea of Galilee ...

This might sound very parochial, but I was walking around the CBD here in Sydney, together with two good friends from my seminary days, and we decided to have dinner in one of the restaurants.

The feast of the Baptism of the Lord, invites each of us, to focus, not so much on Jesus, but on ourselves as people who have been saved through the grace of Baptism.

Happy glorious New Year! I pray and hope that we will all take a conscious an active role in the shaping of 2015.

This is a true confession. My mother did not like me joining the seminary. And I can tell you now, she is displeased that I am now so far away from the family and the US embarking on a mission journey in a very far land, "the land of the kangaroos!"

The movie, “To be or not to be”, is a comedy film by Mel Brooks about a group of stage actors who are trying to escape from the Nazis in the newly occupied Poland in 1939.

In Thailand we have Christmas Lights everywhere. It’s probably the same in your country. But - is there something like the Christmas light in us?

Saint John the Baptist holds the lamp by which we see Jesus as the light of the world.

Saturday, 06 December 2014 09:04

Second Sunday of Advent - 2014

For more than a decade my mum and dad had irreconcilable differences. God only knows how we kids ...

So, the season of Advent comes around once more. We read again from the psalms of the prophet Isaiah, promising a better world for suffering humanity, to be marked by equality, prosperity and justice.

Philip-Gibbs-PNG---with-kidsAfter some time in Papua New Guinea I realised that I had ended up on a sort of plateau when it came to relating to people in greater depth. I was comfortable speaking with people using the Tok Pisin language, but it seemed to me that wasn’t enough, and I needed to put effort into learning the local Enga language.

So I asked the Bishop if I could spend six months in a small isolated village within the parish where I would have the chance of being totally immersed in the local language and culture. The Bishop kindly agreed.

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