Following God
Well, you could take it all literally. You would not, for example, be able to introduce someone to your father, saying 'This is my...
Called into Love
In today's second reading St Paul rejoices over how the people of Salonika, when they were converted, 'broke with idolatry … and became...
Where No Storm Can Reach
The state of the world is rarely a matter for peace of mind. Advances in one area seem to bring setbacks in another. We rejoiced when...
Tenants of God's Vineyard
Sometimes people have something valuable and do not realise it. Only when they lost it, do they realise what they had. It is one of the...
God's Call
I want to do the will of God. Of course I do. And yet, I have always found it difficult to say exactly what God’s will is. Some things...
Lifetime Saints and Last-Minute Christians
Is God ever far away? I ask that question because the first reading (Isa. 55.6-9) encourages us to seek God while he is near. But God is...
Forgiveness
Forgiveness is something that all of us have to deal with from time to time. We may need forgiveness from others whom we have wronged, or...
True Freedom
‘Give us true freedom.’ That is what we ask God in today’s opening prayer. What is true freedom? We can think of it as freedom from...
Take Up Your Cross and Follow Me
Jeremiah did not want to be a prophet. It was not a comfortable vocation. You had to be prepared to speak the truth that people did not...
Wait for the Harvest
The gospel today (Matthew 13.24-43) brings together parables with an agricultural theme. Parables like these tell us that Jesus had a...
