26th Sunday in Ordinary Time (4)

2025 (1)

 
  

The danger is not hatred but spiritual blindness — the failure to see the suffering of our neighbour, just as Amos warned the people of Zion. We may look without seeing. We may hear without listening. We may live without loving. That is the sleep of comfort, the numbness of …



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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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2017 (1)

 
  

Today’s readings talk to us of conversion, the importance of what we do rather than what we say, and of the primacy of individual responsibility over communal responsibility.

In our first reading today we hear how “when a wicked man turns away from the wickedness he has …



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2016 (1)

 
  

Good morning everyone. There are three things I want to propose that we reflect on today after hearing these three readings. They are firstly, what are we to do with luxuries? Secondly, how can I be sensitive? And thirdly, the difficult business of respecting the …



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