Tags: Reflection
Sunday Reflection - 4th Sunday of Easter (Year B)
Posted: Fri, 19 Apr 2024 15:46
For us Salesians, the notion of the 'Good Shepherd' is so important as it reflects the real care that members of the Salesian family should have with young people. The Good Shepherd is not like the simple steward who at the slightest sign of danger runs away and leaves the flock abandoned. Likewise, within the Church, all the baptised faithful are called to follow the example of Jesus the Good Shepherd.... Read More »
Reflection - COMPASSION, Feeding, and Calming.
Posted: Thu, 7 Mar 2024 10:53
Fr Gerry O'Shaughnessy is sharing a series of reflections based on Compassion, Feeding and Calming. This first reflection looks at Matthew 14, and focuses on the theme of Compassion.
Matthew's Gospel provides us with a deep and rich picture of the ministry of Jesus Christ. For centuries, biblical scholarship maintained that the Gospel was written by the tax collector, friend and Apostle, Matthew. In... Read More »
Reflection - Power & Justice in the Media
Posted: Fri, 12 Jan 2024 08:22
Media is so important in our lives: from contacting friends on Facebook, to catching up on the latest edition of 'Eastenders'. Wherever you go, you will see people glued to their phone screens—even in our chapel, as we gather for community prayer, many pray the Daily Office from a Breviary application on their phone. Some will freely admit that they would rather lose a limb than give up their... Read More »
Reflection - Christmas Day Mass
Posted: Fri, 15 Dec 2023 11:09
I wish you, your family and your loved ones, a very happy and holy Christmas. Today our pilgrimage through Advent is over and we have entered the season of Christmas-though I would guess we have been in the festive mood for some weeks now. Given the year we have endured so far, this time of levity and joy is a needed tonic. As we light the Christmas candle in the centre of the Advent Wreath, we are... Read More »
Reflection - To live your silence well
Posted: Tue, 12 Dec 2023 13:33
For those who know me well, you know I am very sociable and a bit of an extrovert. I love to be surrounded by others and thrive in social situations. As I belted out 'Simply the Best' at the parish party to see in the new year of 2020, little did I know that, just a few weeks later, I would be forced to live a life that was so out of character. Illness can cause you to miss out on so much. I soon realised... Read More »
Reflection - Feast of St Nicholas - What can I bring him poor as I am?
Posted: Tue, 5 Dec 2023 13:59
What can I give Him,
Poor as I am?
If I were a shepherd
I would bring a lamb,
If I were a wise man
I would do my part,
Yet what I can I give Him,
Give my heart.
(Christina Rossetti)
As we move through Advent, I enjoy reflecting on the Rossetti poem 'In the Bleak Midwinter.' Born in 1830, she was the youngest child of a great artistic family; as well as her talented siblings, her father was an Italian poet,... Read More »
Sunday Reflection - Christ the King (Year A)
Posted: Fri, 24 Nov 2023 09:07
On this feast of Christ the King we are invited to look seriously as what true leadership looks like. I suppose that kings are a little bit out of date. But any of us who have grown up in recent times remember, especially as a child, the tales of the kings and King Arthur and all these wonderful people. Today, kings and queens tend to be merely a figurehead, a sign of a national loyalty, a reminder... Read More »