POINTING TO THE SAVIOUR OF THE WORLD

Send us Fan Mail INTRO Brothers & sister, theme of humility features prominently in today’s first reading, responsorial psalm,  second reading & gospel; it is a virtue that is not spoken about much today. It tends to get a negative press when it is spoken about. In the Gospel, Jesus challenges those who believe they should enjoy special privileges.  At a banquet, they were seeking places o...

Send us Fan Mail Brothers and sisters, In today’s Gospel reading, our Lord Jesus urges us to enter Heaven through the narrow gate. How do we enter the narrow gate? The answer is given in today’s Second reading. God disciplines us, to enable us to enter the narrow gate. This gate is not wide enough to allow sin, lukewarm lifestyle, absence of love for God, irresponsibility, evil inclinations or so...

Send us Fan Mail Brothers and sisters we all have a habit to speak of heaven as being “up” and of hell as being  “down,” But deep down we know that neither place can be reached by traversing a physical distance. Indeed, a number of years ago  Pope St John Paul II reiterated the traditional Christian view, saying, that “the ‘heaven’ or ‘happiness’ in which we will find ourselves is neither an abstr...

Send us Fan Mail Brothers and sisters, on this first Sunday after Pentecost Sunday, we celebrate one of the greatest mysteries of our Christian faith - the solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity. No amount of philosophical debate or scientific research can fully explain it. But in today’s celebrations, the church reminds us that the three distinct divine persons Father, Son and Holy Ghost are eternall...

Send us Fan Mail Brothers and sisters, today we celebrate Pentecost, a feast that was celebrated by many of the Jews who lived at the time of Jesus. Today we rejoice that the Spirit of God, who is the breath of the world, working invisibly to carry creation towards the Kingdom has been given to us his followers. In the Holy Spirit we believe that there is no time or circumstance, in which God is n...

Send us Fan Mail Brothers and sisters in Christ, today we celebrate the Ascension of the Lord to heaven. But what does Ascension really mean. Is it a sort of "dis-incarnation" whereby God became man, saved us, and then returned to heaven to being God again? No no no. That kind of thinking theologically inacurate. What we celebrate on this Solemnity today is the fact that, Jesus, the eter...

Send us Fan Mail As Christians, we believe in the friendship of God – not because we have loved God first but because God has first chosen to love us. The readings for this sixth Sunday of Easter can be read in terms of friendship - the friendship between God & His people.   The first reading from the Acts of the Apostles, shows the early Church deliberating about its mission to the Gentiles ,...

Send us Fan Mail Brothers and sisters, I welcome you to the table of God’s word on this 5th Sunday of Easter in which we continue to glorify the risen Christ. Slowly but surely, Christ approaches his Ascension into heaven. In today’s first reading, Paul encourages us to remain faithful in our missions as disciples of Jesus Christ. Through the vision of John in the second reading, God gives us a gl...

Send us Fan Mail Brothers and sisters in Christ, I welcome you to the table of God’s word on this third Sunday of Easter.  The readings for the 4th Sunday of Easter Year C (Good Shepherd Sunday) remind us that Jesus loves the whole world and calls to all people to follow him. In the first reading, Paul and Barnabas are rejected by many Jewish communities they visit and they turn to the Gentiles. T...

Send us Fan Mail Brothers and sisters in Christ, I welcome you to the table of God’s word on this third Sunday of Easter.  The readings of today especially the gospel remind us that God does not stop searching for us or loving us because we have denied or sinned against Him, but He takes the initiative of restoring the broken friendship with Him by offering us another opportunity to make amends, t...

Send us Fan Mail Today is the second Sunday of Easter. The church and her faithful continue to worship the risen Christ, who is now alive forever.  Today is also Divine Mercy Sunday. Today, we celebrate the mercy that God shows to the world by sending his Son to die for our salvation. Brothers & sisters, mercy is godly, it is an attribute of God. Jesus is mercy embodied, His mercy is endless,...

Send us Fan Mail HAPPY EASTER Brothers & Sisters in Christ. The readings this Sunday lay great stress on the facts of Christ’s Resurrection: Christ has died, but he is not dead. He has risen! He is alive! Easter is a feast which gives us hope and encouragement in this world of pain, sorrows and tears. It reminds us that life is worth living. It also gives us strength to fight against temptatio...

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Send us Fan Mail Brothers & sisters today, the 6th Sunday of Lent, The Church celebrates both Palm Sunday and Passion Sunday. On this day, we remember and relive the events which brought about our redemption and salvation. One woman who was an intimate part of these events was an anonymous lady later named Veronica who out love& pity for Jesus used a cloth to wipe his face and was gifted w...

Send us Fan Mail Brothers & sisters, the readings on thus 5th Sunday lent challenge us to show mercy to the sinners around us and to live as forgiven people, actively seeking reconciliation with God and with one another. Pope st John Paul II ones said that God does not forgive evil but the individual, and he teaches us to distinguish the evil act, which as such must be condemned, from the pers...

Send us Fan Mail Brothers and sisters, The readings for the 4th Sunday of Lent, traditionally called Laetare Sunday remind us that God is always waiting for us to return to Him so we can receive the abundance of life he offers us. The first reading tells of how the Israelites celebrated Passover on the plains of Jericho. In the second reading Paul tells us to be reconciled to God. And in the gospe...

Send us Fan Mail Brothers and sisters every year on the first Sunday of Lent, our Holy mother Church invites us to meditate on the temptations of Jesus which took place in the desert. The desert was a significant and special place for those at the time of Jesus. Entering its harsh environment was an opportunity to spiritually grow through various challenges and trials. Lent is a season when we lik...

Send us Fan Mail Brothers and sisters on this first day of the Lenten season - Ash Wednesday, we are called to repentance by God who tells us to "come back to me with all your heart, fasting, weeping, mourning" and also in the words used when placing the ash on the forehead: “Repent and believe in the Gospel”.  The Ashes apart from being a symbol repentance, remind us all, human beings o...

Send us Fan Mail Brothers and sisters, on this feast of His resurrection, Jesus challenges - you & I to examine our attitudes and behaviours. He calls us, not just to “talk the talk” but to “walk the walk”.Jesus is talking quite simply here about self-knowledge, self- reflection, self-examination, self-criticism. Jesus invites us to look into our hearts "For a man’s words flow out of what...

Send us Fan Mail Brothers and sisters in Christ, on this 7th Sunday of OT Yr C,  the readings especially the 1st & gospel readings challenge us to reconcile our constant quest for justice with the virtues of mercy and compassion. Because as Christians we are called to model our lives on the new Adam, Jesus, who is full of love, mercy and compassion. In today’s Gospel, He gives us a very import...

Send us Fan Mail Brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus, on this 6th Sunday of OT, the 1st Reading from the Prophet Jeremiah tells us to put our trust and hope in the Lord, not in human beings. The Second Reading from first Letter of St Paul to the Corinthians assures us that our hope in the  resurrection is sure because Christ has been raised from the dead. And in the Gospel Jesus instructs his dis...

Send us Fan Mail Brothers and sisters the readings from Holy Scripture this 3rd Sunday of OT Yr makes for compelling listening. We see a facination with the law in the first reading, an appreciation of the fact that together we form the body of Christ each one of us being a different part performing a different role and function. And a recollection of events in the gospel so that they will not be...

Send us Fan Mail Brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ, on this second in ordinary time year C, we are drawn into a very captivating combination of readings. The importance of names in the first reading, the outpouring of a variety of gifts from the Holy Ghost in the second reading and the sign of that final Wedding Feast between God and His- People in the Gospel reading.  God is always at work wit...

Send us Fan Mail Brothers and Sisters in Christ, today, we celebrate the Feast of the Baptism of Jesus our Saviour marking the end of the Christmas season and the beginning of Ordinary time.  The feast of the Baptism of our Lord serves to remind us of our own Baptisms, compelling us to renew the promises our parents and godparents made on our behalf, when they presented us to the Church, to make o...

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