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Second Sunday of Lent
Readings: Gen 15:5-12, 17-18; Phil 3:17-4:1; Lk 9:28-36
Transfigured.
Many scripture commentaries have little to say about the transfiguration. Some confine themselves to presenting the arguments on the location of the event-Mount Harmon or Mount Tabor.
This was a remarkable experience... Jesus had tried to explain that he had to go to Jerusalem where he would suffer many things and die. 'and that on the third day he would rise again'. This upset the disciples, who really didn't understand what this meant.
The mountain is the place of struggle, of mystery, of isolation and peace. The mountain is a place of silence, where the voice of God can be heard
sundaythoughts.com Martin Tierney
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First Sunday in Lent
Lent is a good time to begin again
Readings: Deut 26:4-10; Rom 10:8-13; Lk 4:1-13
Jesus came for a purpose. 'I have come' he said, so that you might have life and have it to the full.' We were to have this life in this world through following his example.
Sundaythoughts.com Martin Tierney |
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Sixth Sunday
Readings: Jer 17:5-8; 1 Cor 15:12, 16-20; Lk 6:17, 20-26
People want to participate in their own healing and well-being. At times, the sacraments may appear like a form of magic-a healing without consent.
Sundaythoughts.com Martin Tierney
As a school child I had to place the host from a dish into the chalice for holy communion, I thought I would receive the same host at the alter as I had put in before mass started. The magic of the sacrament of communion is to allow each recipient to be given the body of Christ, in the form of the host. |
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The Fith Sunday
Readings: Isa 6:1-2, 3-8; Cor 15:1-11; Lk 5:1-11
- We have to be willing to meet people and to befriend them. A smile or a simple 'hello' is where it begins. Being friendly and pleasant with people is more important than we may believe.
- Learning to relate to people means that a confidence can be established leading to a sharing of faith.
- Telling people what your faith means to you can be a powerful testemony in this year of evangilisation.
- Jesus message is in the Gosple. get a copy of one of the Gospels if you do not already have one.
- Accepting Christ in a full and complete way, requires prayer and repentance.
- People need ongoing support, to help their faith to grow.
- The local church may be asked to accept the responsibility for the continuing growth of the new Christian. In the Catholic tradition the sacramental life of the church will foster growth in holiness.
Sundaythoughts.com Martin Tierney
Support may come from the most unextected sourse, I had a dream this morning about a departed relative who passed on last year, she gave me a hug, I could feel her holding me and her chin putting preasure on my left shoulder. It was hard for me to think that it was a dream, I felt a great sense of being healed.
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Fourth Sunday: Jer 1:4, 5, 17-19; 1 Cor 12:31-13:13; Lk 4:21-30
A prophet must swim against the tide, and will encounter opposition, perhaps even suffering. Preachers and prophets are needed so that, as one commentator put it, 'the rumour of God may be kept alive'.
sundaythoughts.com Martin Tierney.
As Christians we are called to bear witness to the good news that god is a living force in our lives. God so loved the world that he sent his only begotten son, to suffer and die for our sins so that we would not have to. |
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