Greeting (See Second Reading) May the Spirit who raised Jesus from the dead be alive in you. May we live Jesus’ life to the full now, that we may be raised up on the last day. May Jesus, the Lord of life, be always with you. R/ And also with you. Introduction by the Celebrant […]
It is hard for a person who “has been seduced by God,” as Jeremiah says, to be rejected by the very community to which one has dedicated one’s life and before which one bears witness to the spiritual. He is a source of division. So was Jesus. Are we willing to take the risks of
Men and women who claim to know God a bit and to live consistently as his sons or daughters, are queer and bothersome to unbelievers as well as to those who take their religion as a set of duties or religious rites. There is no place for such eccentrics who go against the current, for
When Jesus is questioned and blamed for curing a paralysed man on a Sabbath, Jesus responded to them by saying how he is like the Father. Yes, after the work of creation, God rested on the seventh day. But the work of redemption is going on, the Father and Jesus are always at work, even
Water flows from the Temple and turns the land into a fertile paradise, bringing health and life, says Ezekiel. But this living Temple is Christ, says John. Encountering him means forgiveness, health, and life. These readings on the symbolism of life-giving water and on Christ have been chosen in view of baptism, the Lenten-Easter sacrament:
For people who believe, the golden age lies in the future, not in the past, says the third section of the book of Isaiah. Before the exile, the Jews and their prophets looked to the beginnings, to the past, as the golden era from which humankind had declined. Now the prophet turns to the future.
Greeting (See Second Reading) We were darkness once but now we are light in the Lord. Wake up from your sleep, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you. May the light of Christ be always with you. R/ And also with you. Introduction by the Celebrant Open Our Eyes, Lord One of
We cannot save ourselves by rites and practices. Sin is forgiven, and lasting happiness is found in an encounter of love with God. If we recognise that we are sinners, people who have failed at times and who could do better, we recognise that our love is still very limited, and then, there is room
Many human endeavours fail because God is left out of the picture. Israel wanted to go her own way, relying on her resources and alliances with the mighty of the day. The mighty are toppled by mightier ones, and everything collapses. People today try to achieve prosperity and happiness, but at the expense of others,
“Listen to my voice,” says God through his prophet Jeremiah, and then, he complains that God’s people fails to listen, that they listen to themselves and follow their own ways. Their deeds do not speak the language of God. They do not follow God. In the Gospel, Jesus cures the man who was mute. Worse
