Reflections for May 2021

Pentecost Sunday

May 23, 2021

“We hear them speaking in our own tongues of the mighty acts of God.” Luke in the Acts of the Apostles gives us the most dramatic account of the coming of the Holy Spirit. There is wind and fire and speaking of foreign languages. The sound effects, the big diverse crowds, the intimate interior, the […]

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Ascension of the Lord

May 16, 2021

Our lives revolve around clocks and calendars. Keeping track of what we have to do next is a major concern and sometimes a problem for us. Knowing what happened in the past is a matter of keeping straight what happened when, and to whom. The trouble is when we apply this approach to understanding the

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Sixth Sunday of Easter

May 9, 2021

Hopefully the message is getting through 🙂 It’s all about love!! So we hear more again this week from John – in fact some of it is repeating what should be familiar by now: Jesus says “remain in my love; keep the commandments; you are my equals not inferiors”. There are however two new elements.

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Fifth Sunday of Easter

May 2, 2021

John’s Gospel is all about relationships – the relationship between Jesus and the Father, and our relationship with both of them. When talking about these relationships, John often uses the phrase “remain in me” – we hear it repeated many times today in both the gospel and John’s letter. To us this is an odd

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