The words in which a broken Israel found inspiration, and which continue to offer spiritual succour to our Jewish contemporaries, offer consolation and encouragement to Christians too. The one God, the same God, speaks to each of our communities, acknowledging our past struggles, hurts and humiliations, and assuring us that God – the one God, […]
Wisdom comes for us all in many forms, but most fully, most perfectly as God’s living Word, Jesus Christ himself. There are many opportunities for us to engage with God’s Wisdom, but none has the power or effect of spending time with Jesus himself, in Word, in Holy Communion – in the Eucharist and in […]
The words of caution and guidance that we hear at Mass today, come from Mark’s Gospel, shortly before the beginning of the Passion Narrative. The clouds are gathering, and again and again Mark reminds of people’s failure to grasp the who, what and why of Jesus – a failure shared in by even his closest […]
