Celebrating at Home: We've All Met Them! *30th Sunday of Ordinary Time* We’ve all met them: people who only seem to be able to bolster their self-image by putting everyone else down. We meet such a character in the Pharisee in the Gospel for this Sunday.  Like the Pharisee in this week’s Gospel, we can sometimes see religion as a set of personal rituals, actions and prayers that cause us to think we have been faithful to God’s calling because we have done this or that. Spirituality, however, is about practising ...Continue Reading

Celebrating at Home: Don't Give Up! *29th Sunday of Ordinary Time* Jesus tells this story of a persistent widow who wins the day against an unjust judge. St Luke says that the story is “about the need to pray continually and never lose heart.” God is not like the unjust judge, who delays in answering and finally gives in only when threatened. God will hear and answer the persistent cry of his people.  We, too, can be tempted to lose heart as we live in the midst of the evils of our own day. When will there be j ...Continue Reading

Celebrating at Home: An Invitation for All *28th Sunday of Ordinary Time* A major theme in St Luke’s Gospel is that the message of Jesus is for all: men and women, rich and poor, old and young, healthy and sick, gentile and Jew. No one is excluded. It is no accident that the one grateful leper in this week’s Gospel is not a Jew but a Samaritan – an outsider, excluded by race, religion and his illness. He joins the others in asking a Jewish Rabbi for mercy. Read more .... [*]Celebrating At Home - 28th Sund ...Continue Reading

Celebrating at Home: Does God Listen? *27th Sunday of Ordinary Time* “Are you listening, God?” That’s the cry of the prophet Habakkuk in the first reading for this Sunday. Everyone can resonate with the Habakkuk’s feelings of frustration and anger at the appalling injustice he witnesses. ‘Why is God so slow to act?’, he complains. Read more .... [*]Celebrating At Home - 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time [PDF] [*]Celebrating At Home - 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time [ePub]   .   ...Continue Reading

October – Octubre – Ottobre  2022 ENGLISH | ESPAÑOL | ITALIANODownload English: ocarm.org/en/prayer/lectiodivina Descargar Español: ocarm.org/es/prayer/lectiodivina Scarica Italiano: ocarm.org/it/prayer/lectiodivina ENGLISHLECTIO DIVINA - October 2022[*]Lectio Divina October 2022 [PDF] Download here[*]Lectio Divina October 2022 [ePub] Download here[*]Lectio Divina October 2022 [Mobi] Download here If you wish to receive updates on current news from the Carm ...Continue Reading

Celebrating at Home: Fortunes Reversed *26th Sunday of Ordinary Time* The story Jesus tells in the Gospel is about a rich man, his five brothers and a poor man, and how their fortunes get reversed. The story is told against the background belief that riches were a sign of God’s blessing. By the time of Jesus, the teaching of the prophets that blessing brings responsibility seems to have been forgotten. So the story asks the hearers: will they follow the example of the rich man or heed Jesus’ teaching (and that of the ...Continue Reading

Celebrating at Home: Investing in the Future *25th Sunday of Ordinary Time* When bad things happen to us we are apt to spend a great deal of time being angry at what has taken place – especially if we feel that what has happened is unjust, unfair or unreasonable. Today’s Gospel episode is often called the ‘Parable of the Unjust Steward’. But perhaps he is the one who is being treated unjustly. After all, the Master hears a rumour that the steward has been ‘wasteful with his property’. Without conducting an investigat ...Continue Reading

Celebrating at Home: Loss, Recovery, and Celebration *24th Sunday of Ordinary Time* The three parables which form the Gospel this week share a common pattern: loss, finding, celebration. Jesus tells these parables in the context of a shared meal with the ‘tax collectors and sinners’. Jesus tells these parables to explain his actions and to invite the scribes and Pharisees into a new understanding of God’s love and mercy.  Read more .... [*] Celebrating At Home - 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time [PD ...Continue Reading

Celebrating at Home: Real Reality *23rd Sunday of Ordinary Time*Today’s Gospel contains a rather heavy dose of real reality about what is required in order to be a disciple of Jesus.The words of Jesus have to be read against the background of the Kingdom life God is inviting us into and the central message of Jesus that we need to place God in the centre of our hearts.   Read more ....[*]Celebrating At Home - 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time [PDF][*]Celebrating At Home -&nbs ...Continue Reading

September – Septiembre – Settembre  2022 ENGLISH | ESPAÑOL | ITALIANO Download English: ocarm.org/en/prayer/lectiodivina Descargar Español: ocarm.org/es/prayer/lectiodivina Scarica Italiano: ocarm.org/it/prayer/lectiodivina ENGLISH LECTIO DIVINA - September 2022 [*]Lectio Divina September 2022 [PDF] Download  here [*]Lectio Divina September 2022 [ePub] Download  here [*]Lectio Divina September 2022 [Mobi] Download  here If you wish to receive u ...Continue Reading