Reflection We discover in the Gospel today what it means to be a real Christian, a real follower and disciple. Lots of things are useful to us, but what is essential, what is necessary, what is the most important thing of all is this… Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all […]
Reflection There are the crowds who have accompanied Jesus from Bethany, where he had been staying with Mary, Martha and Lazarus. Bethany is not far from Jerusalem, and we can easily imagine that everything had rather ground to a halt in Bethany and the villages round about when Lazarus was raised from the dead. Now […]
Reflection We can be glad that the Lord Jesus is willing to make many and every effort to reach each one of us. He goes out many times into the marketplace of the world and seeks us, enquires after us, invites us to come and work with him and for him in the vineyard of […]
Reflection The rich young man holds Jesus in high regard, and comes running to him, and kneels before him in the position of a student before a master. He calls our Lord, Teacher. In fact he first addresses him as ‘Good Teacher’, and the Lord asks him why he calls him ‘Good’, since only God […]
Reflection Who is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven? What sort of question is that for any followers of Jesus to ask? Of course I am sure that the disciples understood that our Lord Jesus Christ is the Lord of he Kingdom of Heaven, but they meant to ask ‘which of us is most […]
Reflection When the Lord Jesus revealed himself transfigured, he was manifesting that divine glory which im-penetrated his humanity, but which in a divine humility he kept veiled from sight. His humanity was the same as our own, liable to pain and suffering on the cross, able to experience death, yet it was filled with divine […]
Reflection We often hear people say, when they are facing a difficult situation, that they are bearing their cross. But though this is a common way for people to speak, it is not Scriptural or Orthodox. We have to be careful how we speak, because if we misrepresent aspects of our faith we can be […]
Reflection The Pharisees were considered the most religious of all the Jews, and Jesus didn’t criticise them for the effort they put into the practice of their religion. Many of the things they insisted on were a particular interpretation of the Law which God himself had insitituted. But he had not introduced it as a […]
Reflection I would like us to think about the disciples and how they responded to the command of the Lord in this passage from the Gospel. Our Lord Jesus had pointed out the need to them. There was a great crowd of people and they were soon going to be very hungry and need some […]
Reflection What is there in our life which prevents us being as fruitful in the journey of Discipleship? We can apply the teaching of the Lord Jesus about the sower who went out to sow. In ancient times a farmer would have a bag filled with seed slung across his shoulder and he would take […]