Purifying Word

This is reflection on the memorial of St Barnabas life and the way his witness inspires us today. 

Jesus Christ is our Mediator with the Father and his Priesthood remains forever. Find out why this is important for us who cone to God through him. Be blessed as you listen. Happy feast.

Christ is the Head of the Church his body. Mary is the mother of the Head, Jesus and as such the mother of the body. On the Cross Jesus gives us the his Mother to be our mother also. Like John the beloved, let us make a room for her in the home of our hearts. Find our more and be blessed as you listen. Mary, Mother of the Church, pray for us.

Today is the Feast of the Pentecost which marked the birth of the Church and the fulfilment of God’s promise through the Prophet Joel 2:28, that “it shall come to pass when I shall pour out my Spirit upon all flesh…”. It marks the moment when the law of the Lord is written not on stone tablets as of old, but on the tablets of the human heart, thus empowering us to live in truth and in spirit the C...

Today we celebrate the memorial of these great saints of Uganda. May their courage lend us strength and courage as we witness to the Risen Lord in our world today.

Christian unity of heart and mind, is the fertile soil for an authentic Christian evangelisation. It reveals Jesus to the world and leads to an experience of the divine eternal glory. Find out more and blessed as you listen.

In this feast we celebrate the triumph of grace of the life of this great saint. We pray for his intercessions especially for England and other nations where he sent missionaries. 

Find out how the Solemnity of the Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ strengthens our hope for the eternal glory. 

An authentic Christian obedience is a fruit of love and a seed for a Divine Encounter. Hence, Jesus says in today’s Gospel of John 14, “if anyone loves me, he will obey my commands and we shall come and make our home with him”. Find out more and be blessed as you listen.

Love is the witness. In today’s Gospel Jesus gives us a new Commandment to love each other as he loved us. Jesus then added, by this love you have for each other other we know that you are my disciples. Find out more what this commandment means for us as Christians.

We celebrate the feast of St Matthias and pray for his powerful intercession. Be blessed as you listen.

Today we celebrate and confess that Jesus Christ is our Good Shepherd who leads us to Eternal Life. However, this confession immediately invites us to consider and examine our lives to know if we are truly his sheep, listening to and recognising his voice and then following him. Find out more and be blessed as you listen. Happy Good Shepherd Sunday

This is the first meditation audio made by the Purifying Word. It is short, simple and powerfully enriching. Feel free to use it for your personal meditation on patient rejoicing.

Faith in the resurrection of Jesus immediately invites us to witness to the same with conviction and authority. However, this witness must flow from a deep conviction and a personal experience of the Risen Lord. It is never simply a result of an assent to some moral propositions nor is it a result of an ethical choice. It flows from a living experience. But it is the Holy Spirit that empowers us a...

On this second of Easter, we celebrate the Divine Mercy, not as a concept but as God’s self-revelation in Christ. Divine is at heart of the proclamation of the Good News and gives shape and life to it. Find out more and be blessed as you listen.

Tonight we celebrate the resurrection of our Lord Jesus whose death destroyed our death and by his rising from the dead manifested the resurrection and life eternal. Be blessed as you listen. Christ is Risen Alleluia Alleluia.

This is a Purifying Word reflection for the celebration of the Good Friday Liturgy of the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Be blessed as you listen.

Today we celebrate Jesus’ Last Supper where he instituted the Holy Eucharist , the Holy Orders and set an example for us, and example of self-giving service as true and authentic expression of our love for God and the experience of his love. Find our more and blessed as you listen.

Today marks the beginning of the Holy Week. On a Passion Sunday Jesus goes up to Jerusalem where he will suffer and die for our salvation. Let us spiritually accompany him on this journey whilst contemplating on these mysteries of our salvation. Find our more and be blessed as you listen.

It is our personal experiences of God’s gratuitous mercy and loving forgiveness that opens our eyes to see in others a human person deserving forgiveness and a second chance. In this experience and knowledge of God’s transcendent and surpassing love , everything that the world could offer appears to us as rubbish. As we constantly by grace yield to the Mercy’s call to express mercy and to pardon a...

God’s dealings with the Old Testament people is meant to serve both as an encouragement and as a warning. There we see that God’s goodness and patience were often taken for granted, hence they were unfruitful. During this lent the Lord invites us to recognise his mercy and patience as an invitation to bear enduring fruits to the glory of the Father.

Jesus is the fulfilment of all God’s promises, the law and the prophets. It is through Christ that the Lord is fulfilling his promise to Abraham of descendants as many as the stars of heaven. It is through Jesus Christ the God is offering us a land, not an earthly Land, but a Heavenly Homeland where our lowly bodies are transformed into his own glorious bodies. Find out more and be blessed as you...

As we advance on our Lenten Journey, we are invited to allow the Holy Spirit to lead us through the desert areas of our lives so we could confront our spiritual struggles. We are to stand firmly on the solid foundation of our Christian Creed which tells us that Jesus is the Lord. In Jesus every temptation has been conquered. So, we can trust that in the power of his Spirit we too will overcome as...

Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the Lenten season which is a period of renewal of faith in preparation for the celebration of Easter. The readings of today’s Holy Mass invite the faithful to return to the Lord with all their heart. Armed with the spiritual weapons of prayer, fasting and almsgiving, the faithful embarks on this Lenten journey, confronting his or her spiritual struggles but con...

This is a Purifying Word reflection on the Mass readings of the Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C. As we approach the Lenten season, the readings turn and direct our hearts to consider the fruits that we bear. Jesus directs our eyes away from focusing on other people’s faults so that we could consider our needs for God. In his words, take out the plank in your eyes in order to see clearly to t...