ADVENT JESSE TREE REFLECTIONS. 2ND SUNDAY. repentance
December 5. 2nd Sunday of Advent C. Two candles are lit on the Advent wreath. The people of Israel had become materialistic, greedy and selfish, had no longer obeyed God’s commandments and were conquered by the Babylonians. Jerusalem was destroyed and the…
ADVENT JESSE TREE REFLECTIONS. JACOB AND FAMILY
December4. Jacob and sons. Read from Genesis 28 – 35. Jacob, Isaac’s son, is the last patriarch, those men of stature who, in spite of some events in their personal lives, followed the God who had made a covenant with them. His 12 sons became the…
ADVENT JESSE TREE REFLECTIONS ISAAC, REBECCA AND FAMILY
December 3. Isaac, Rebecca and their family. Read from Genesis 25-27. Isaac chose Rebecca as his wife. Like her mother-in-law Sarah, Isaac’s wife Rebecca, was childless until God answered their prayers and granted them twin boys. Even before their birth they seemed to…
ADVENT JESSE TREE reflection on abraham’s family
December 2. Abraham’s family. Read from Genesis 12 -25. Abraham is a giant figure in Biblical history, our father in faith and the first of the patriarchs. This might evoke negative feelings in those who reject patriarchy as oppressive of women. In the context of the…
ADVENT, WORLD AIDS DAY, ACTIVISM AND FAMILY COMMITMENT
December 1. World AIDS DAY. Johnson sat thinking back over the last 25 years. “When AIDS was first diagnosed there was so much fear, shame and stigma attached to it. People would talk but few would say, ‘My son is infected,”’ or ‘My daughter died of AIDS.’ Families…
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…
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