There is a true freedom that enters our living by remaining in Jesus. His presence freeing us from a Me First world and opens up a freer way to be human, demonstrated in our no longer living for ourselves but for others. The Jesus we hear in our gospel today, wants us to know that…

This week before Holy Week we are invited to walk with Jesus, a Jesus condemned and hunted down but intensely in love with the Father. The last words of Pope Emeritus Benedict, “Jesus, I love you”. In our preparing for Holy Week, it is helpful to be aware of our love for Jesus and then…

Our Lenten Fridays echo Good Friday, our hearts are being slowly prepared to be with the one we love as he suffers. Although Jesus reluctantly goes to Jerusalem as secretly as he can, those there, when they recognise him, want to arrest him. The opposition intensifies and Jesus proclaims the Kingdom, God’s way of being…

As we are moving towards Holy Week, today’s feast suddenly widens our focus to include the beginnings of all of this. It is so refreshing to feel the imagination of God. We have our ways of being human in this world of ours and today we are reminded of God’s loving imagination. Mary is invited…

Mary shows us the way, she helps us to appreciate how essential our relationship with Jesus is. “If you had of been here…..” This plea of hers stirs Jesus, she and he and all those concerned seemingly are in tears in the face of the coldness of death. There is a no experience, no matter…

We can feel the shame of this woman. Sadly, we live in a society that favours shame and disgrace; not a place God can call home. Whatever Jesus was scribbling in the ground was blown away in the wind. What was not blown away and all these centuries later remains, is the non-condemnation of Jesus…