27th April 2025 (Year C – Easter 2) “The Unstoppable Kingdom of God”
William Carey, the first English missionary in India, had a terrible experience.
He lost all the translation work he had done over 20 years in a fire. He found that following God can be costly, but the flame of the Holy Spirit was lit in many peoples lives – grace abounded.
He, like the disciples, discovered no situation can hinder the spread of the gospel.
20th April 2025 (Year C – Easter Sunday) “Meeting Christ on the Road”
Many voices can be heard in our world – What is true? What is false? What do we disregard?
Is it reasonable to believe something we did not get to experience?
The 2 people traveling to Emmaus may have the answer… on that road, the stranger with them, shared the scriptures which were enough to believe that what they had heard was true – Jesus
died and rose again – their hearts were set on fire!
13th April 2025 (Year C – Palm Sunday) “JOURNEY TO THE CROSS – Beyond Misunderstanding”
Misunderstandings happen for a variety of reasons. The Pharisees misunderstood.
Jesus was misunderstood but He did not hold back from demonstrating his love for the world.
It was not the entry into Jerusalem; it was the cross that marked Jesus’ destination.
God’s kingdom would arrive through the sacrifice on a cross, not a conquering king.
6th April 2025 (Year C – Lent 5) “Mary, Paragon of Devotion”
What Mary did was challenging for both Martha and Judas.
For Mary, devotion was exemplary to service and at this particular time she was performing an act of welcoming no matter the cost.
There are times when we need to celebrate the quiet and beautiful, abundant and meditative, superfluous and the pretty as followers of Jesus.
30th March 2025 (Year C – Lent 4) “New Rules – New Beginnings”
The story of the father and the 2 sons who choose different paths is a real life story!
Often people make disappointing choices, they don’t always turn out as planned.
The father in this story is like God – loving and forgiving and welcoming.
Lent is a time for making new starts, examine yourself and bring your best to God.
23rd March 2025 (Year C – Lent 3) “God’s Second Chances”
We humans have been given free choice. Sometimes we use it wisely – other times we cause harm and can hurt people.
The latter is is not the kind of life God wants for, and from, us.
God is always looking to call us back to living the way of love. God always offers a 2nd chance if we fail.
Lent is a time when we are called to look at how we are living – is it the example Jesus showed us?
16th March 2025 (Year C – Lent 2) “Seeking God’s Face”
What we most long for is what we most fear to find. What if we did, indeed, see the face of God?
The season of Lent calls us to confront our frailty, fallibility and fallenness and yearn for God.
The one we have longed for and feared to seek has already and always been seeking us.
May we be willing to be found.
9th March 2025 (Year C – Lent 1) “The Transforming Power of the Wilderness”
The wilderness is a space where we unearth our innate potential and begin to transform into the individuals we are destined to become.
Lent offers a transformative space that encouraged deep reflection, growth, and connection to a broader spiritual reality.
In this time may we emerge from our wilderness stronger, wiser and ever closer to the heart of God.
2nd March 2025 (Year C – Transfiguration of Jesus) “Transfiguration Awesomeness”
As Jesus wandered the dusty roads connecting with people he showed his true humanness.
Then an another event happens and and Christ’s Divinity and his path to Jerusalem looms before everyone.
Fully human and fully divine as required in all its depth, for what the cross and tomb will demand.
