WHO IS TO BLAME?
Blame can be a massively complicated issue. Right now, because South Africa was the first to report the emergence and identification of a new coronavirus variant, now named Omicron, we seem to be blamed in some way for having created it. This has even led to the…
ADVENT JESSE TREE – noah’s family saved from the flood
November 30. Noah and his Family. Read Genesis 6-9. Another well-known and loved story is that of Noah and the Flood. Some time after creation God became so disappointed with the behaviour of his human creatures that he decided to destroy them all, except Noah who is…
ADVENT – JESSE TREE. ADAM AND EVE’S FAMILY
November 29. Adam and Eve’s family. Read Genesis 1 – 4. The creation stories of humankind are well known. God created man and woman to be close and intimate, to be united in body, mind and heart, to be ‘one flesh,’ being fruitful and bearing children. This…
1ST SUNDAY OF ADVENT. GENEALOGY
November 28. First Sunday of Advent. (November reflections are replaced with the Advent programme.) Genealogy. Light the 1st candle on the Advent wreath today and every day of the week. Read Genesis 4-5. It begins with the story of Cain’s envy of his brother Abel, how…
DANIEL’S APOCALYPTIC VISION OF MESSIANIC JOY
November 26. Vincent continued his explanation by describing Daniel’s own visions. This section of the book is part of the Catholic canon. The message and content of these was similar to the dreams of the kings about the different kingdoms. The context again was to…
tHE MIXED MESSAGE OF DANIEL AND THE LIONS
November 25. Vincent described another event in Daniel’s story. Some spies reported to the king that Daniel had been seen praying to God. The king had signed a law that anyone found praying to any god other than himself would be thrown into the lion’s den. The king…
ACT, ACTOR, ACTION, ACTIVISM, ACTIVIST
I’m playing around with words around ACT. It is a verb, “to act,” but can also be a noun of course, an act, or the act. All these words show subtle differences. Some bring to mind just doing, others doing good although not necessarily, even playing…
WORKING TOGETHER WITH GOD
November 22. Vincent, their “Bible fundi” had met with parish family groups to help them understand the deeper messages of the book of Daniel. He explained, “Everyone loves the stories about Daniel and his friends and their miraculous escapes when the various evil…
CHRIST THE KING, last sunday of the year
November 21. Christ the King B. Dolores told her friends, “We all come from different parts of the world with different ways of doing things, different governments and I think also a different understanding of kings and queens, princes and princesses etc. In Lebanon,…
fAITH lives in CULTURe
November 20. Vincent, a parishioner who had been asked to provide some background to the Scripture readings explained, “Contained in the two books of Maccabees is not only history but also theological reflections that had developed during these late Old Testament…
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