Monday Week 6 Year II

Edel McClean offers these reflections: Readings: James 1:1-11, Psalm 118, Mark 8:11-13 The liturgical title for today is Monday of the Sixth Week of Ordinary Time. Ordinary Time. A quick look at ordinary in the dictionary tells us ‘unexceptional, plain, uninteresting’. It seems a little like what the Pharisees are accusing Jesus of in our …

Sunday Week 3 of Advent Year A

Though I’m not up to preaching these days I thought I might enlist the Loyola Hall Team to give their reflections occasionally. Today’s offering is from Edel McClean. Readings: Isaiah 35:1-6,10; Psalm 145:6-10; James 5:7-10; Matt 11:2-11 Advent is all about faith and hope, and our readings today don’t let us down on that front. …

Sunday Week 7 Year C

Readings: 1 Sam 26:2-23; 1 Cor 15:45-49; Luke 6:27-38 Today’s readings are a charter for stupidity and a counsel for failure. Economics is founded on the belief that value grows by self-interest. Politics is built on the conviction that power must be contained by power and violence met with violence. And the biological science has …

Saturday Week 31 Year II

Readings: Philippians 4:10-19; Luke 16:9-15 Money continues to be in the spotlight today and it’s interesting how Jesus both praises and condemns it in the same breath. He calls it tainted, little, even loathsome and yet, precisely because it is so unimportant it assumes importance. How we handle the small stuff reveals our hearts better …