The Carmelite Monastery of Sr Thérèse in Benoni (5)
2020 (1)
Today our readings are short, and they are basically inviting us to listen to God, and to notice that God has not abandoned us, but is always with us. We are simply called to respond to God’s presence and call in our lives.
I’m not sure if you remember the Gospel from last …
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Read more...2019 (3)
Our readings this morning all talk about an encounter with God that carried with it an invitation or a call to spread God’s word, to accept God’s grace, and to do God’s will.
I’m sure we all recognised these calls. They all broadly follow a similar pattern. There is usually …
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Read more...In today’s readings I think there are two verbs we should take special notice of. The first is ‘encourage’ from our first reading. The selection from the Acts of the Apostles describes the conclusion of St Paul’s first missionary journey where he took the good news of Jesus. …
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Read more...The readings in our Mass today asks us, I think, to focus on God’s victory over evil and God’s power at work in Mary, and whether we allow it to work in ours lives as well.
When Pope Pius XII proclaimed Mary’s Assumption in 1950, he called his document Munificentissimus …
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Read more...2018 (1)
Our readings this morning talk of prophecy, God’s faithfulness and the importance of our faith.
Our first reading is trying to remind us that our leaders should never lack the gift of prophecy. Whether they exercise it or not is the real question. The reading tries to show …
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