Celebrating at Home: Love Revealed in the Passion*Good Friday*The Passion of Jesus according to JohnNear the cross of Jesus stood his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala. Seeing his mother and the disciple he loved standing near her, Jesus said to his mother, ‘Woman, this is your son.’ Then to the disciple he said, ‘This is your mother.’ And from that moment the disciple made a place for her in his home.After this, Jesus knew that everything had now been completed, an ...Continue Reading

  Celebrating at Home: Washing Feet, Sharing Bread and Wine: Love Poured Our in Service*Holy Thursday*On this night we recall Jesus’ commandment to love one another, his washing of the disciples’ feet and the breaking of the bread of his own life, not just at table, but also on the altar of the Cross, for the healing and nourishment of the world. The liturgy on Holy Thursday is a meditation on the essential connection between the Eucharist and Christian love expressed in serving one another. Read mor ...Continue Reading

  Celebrating at Home: Love RevealedPalm Sunday*First thing in the morning, the chief priests together with the elders and scribes, in short the whole Sanhedrin, had their plan ready. They had Jesus bound and took him away and handed him over to Pilate.Pilate questioned him, “Are you the king of the Jews?” “It is you who say it” he answered. And the chief priests brought many accusations against him.Read more ...  [*]Celebrating At Home - Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord [PDF][*]Celebratin ...Continue Reading

  Celebrating at Home: Being Light in the Darkness4th  Sunday in Lent*This Sunday marks a change in the Lenten focus. We are no longer so absorbed by our own limitations and weaknesses in faith. We are more confident of God’s kindness, forgiveness and healing without which we would never dare embark on this journey.The first reading today speaks about the re-building of the temple in Jerusalem. For the ancient Jews the re-building of their temple was a moment filled with hope and expectation.The Gospel re ...Continue Reading

  Celebrating at Home: Cleansing Our Hearts3rd Sunday in Lent*The Gospels of the last two Sundays showed us that the Christian journey is from Temptation to Transfiguration. The Gospels of the next three Sundays of Lent present Jesus as the road (or The Way, as the early Christians referred to him) from temptation to transfiguration.In today’s Gospel we find a deeply passionate Jesus causing a near-riot in the outer precincts of the Temple. In John’s Gospel Jesus’ prophetic actions have less to do with ‘cleans ...Continue Reading

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Celebrating at Home: From Temptation to Transfiguration (2) 2nd Sunday of Lent This Sunday’s Gospel of the Transfiguration completes the ‘little parable’ formed by the Gospels of the first two Sundays of Lent. These Gospels tell us what Lent is about and what Christian life is about: a constant journey from temptation and doubt to transfiguration and faith. Read more ... [*]Celebrating At Home - 2nd Sunday in Lent [PDF] [*]Celebrating At Home - 2nd Sunday in Lent [ePub]  .     .   & ...Continue Reading

Celebrating at Home: From Temptation to Transfiguration 1st Sunday of Lent Our great Lenten journey has begun! It’s a journey which begins in ash and ends in water. We begin Lent in the ash of acknowledging our own part in harbouring, creating and doing evil - those places in our hearts where the fire of anger, bitterness, selfishness or narrowness of mind and heart has left nothing but cold ash. The ash is a reminder that our true life is not found in mortal things which eventually turn to dust, but in eternal thi ...Continue Reading

  Celebrating at Home: Continuing the Journey with Jesus6th Sunday of Ordinary TimeFollowing last week’s Gospel, Jesus has set out to preach and heal in the other towns of Galilee when a leper comes to him and pleads for healing.In Biblical times people with any kind of shiny, scaly skin condition were usually considered to have leprosy. Anyone suspected of being leprous had to live outside their town for fear of spreading the disease to others. They had to leave their home and family, their job, their communi ...Continue Reading

Celebrating at Home: On the Journey with Jesus 5th Sunday of Ordinary Time The story of Jesus’ first day of ministry in Capernaum continues in the Gospel for this Sunday. After leaving the synagogue where he has healed the possessed man Jesus goes to Simon’s house. He heals Simon’s mother-in-law and restores her to her rightful place as hospitality provider - a sacred ministry in Jewish households.  That evening, after sunset, after the Sabbath day was over, people begin to bring the sick and possessed to Jesus ...Continue Reading