In different ways, all three readings of today’s Mass deal with the theme of eternal life. An old and infirm man was living in a shack on the edge of the forest. One winter’s morning he got up to find only one meal of porridge left, the fireplace empty, and…
In correcting people, the kind of approach we adopt is all-important. If we approach them only to confront them with their faults, in all probability we will achieve nothing. In fact, we are likely to make matters worse. They will close up, become resentful, and harden their hearts. You never…
The prayer of the Pharisee went like this: “I thank you, God, that I am not grasping, unjust, adulterous like the rest of mankind, and particularly that I am not like this Tax Collector here. I fast twice a week; I pay tithes on all I get.” The prayer of…
No one can live a Christian life without prayer. But we have to understand what prayer is and what it does. Three men were trapped in a dark cellar which had no doors or windows. How did they react to their predicament? The first was a writer by the name…
“Gratitude is the heart’s memory” (French Proverb). The ten lepers in the Gospel owed their lives to Jesus; yet only one of them came back to thank him. It’s seems strange that the one who came back to give thanks was an outsider – a Samaritan. But isn’t that how…
