top of page
“Happy are those who live in your house, continually singing your praise!
Happy the pilgrims whom you strengthen, to make the ascent to you” (Psalm 84, 5-6)
Gospel reflections
Search
Assumptionists in the UK
May 26, 20232 min read
Pentecost Sunday
7th Sunday Easter year A 2023 Jn 20, 19 -23 After the Ascension, the apostles and disciples spent much of their time in prayer. They had...
Assumptionists in the UK
May 26, 20233 min read
6th Sunday of Easter
6th Sunday of Easter Year A 2023 Jn 17, 1-11 The community within which Jesus grew up, like all communities in Israel at that time,...
Assumptionists in the UK
May 26, 20233 min read
5th Sunday of Easter
5th Sunday Easter Year A 2023 Jn 14, 15-21 The Truth Jesus refers to is not something we can possess, nor is it about knowledge, words or...
Assumptionists in the UK
May 26, 20233 min read
Good Shepherd
4th Sunday Easter Year A - Good Shepherd – Vocations - 2023 Pope Francis writes about Vocations : This is the 60th celebration of the...
Assumptionists in the UK
Apr 25, 20233 min read
3rd Sunday Easter
3rd Sunday Easter Emmaus 2023, Lk 24,13-35 With the arrival of Spring there is an energy in the air that almost impels us to go out and...
Assumptionists in the UK
Apr 25, 20232 min read
Divine Mercy Sunday
2nd Sunday Easter Year A - 2023 Luke describes the early Christians forming a community of mutual support and sharing. A better word for...
Assumptionists in the UK
Apr 25, 20232 min read
East Sunday
East Sunday Year A 2023 Sr Macrina Wiederkehr osb has an interesting way of welcoming Easter. Rather than being observers of this...
Assumptionists in the UK
Jun 15, 20223 min read
The gift of the Holy Spirit.
Pentecost Sunday 5/6/2022 Jn 14, 15-16,23-26 We are today on the Pentecost Sunday, the day the Apostles received the gift of the Holy...
Assumptionists in the UK
Jun 15, 20222 min read
7th Sunday of Easter
7th Sunday of Easter 30/5/2022 Jn 17, 20-26 We talk and pray and yearn for Christian Unity but do we ever give serious thought to what it...
Assumptionists in the UK
May 24, 20223 min read
6th Sunday of Easter
6th Sunday of Easter Year C, 22/05/2022 Jn 14, 23-29 Revelation speaks of the temple of the city being Jesus Christ. This reminds us of...
Assumptionists in the UK
May 24, 20222 min read
5th Sunday of Easter
5th Sunday of Easter Year C 15/5/2022 Jn 13, 31-35 We often talk about the glory of God or about giving glory to God but do we pause to...
Assumptionists in the UK
May 9, 20222 min read
4th Sunday of Easter
4th Sunday of Easter 8/5/2022 Jn10, 27-30 Only a small reference about Jesus being the Good Shepherd but that is all we need. In Jesus’...
Assumptionists in the UK
May 9, 20222 min read
3th Sunday of Easter
3th Sunday of Easter 1/5/2022 Jn 21, 1-19 Yesterday I was privileged to bless a sundial in the Quaker Peace Garden which contains...
Assumptionists in the UK
May 23, 20212 min read
Pentecost Sunday
Pentecostés, 1615-1620, by Juan Bautista Maíno Jn 15,26-27; 16,12-15 Describing a wonder-filled and amazing experience is never easy....
Assumptionists in the UK
May 21, 20212 min read
Friday 21/05/2021
Eastertide week 7, Acts 25, 13-21; Jn 21, 15-19 Imagine that the encounter of Jesus with Peter took place in a quiet place just as the...
Assumptionists in the UK
May 20, 20212 min read
Thursday 20/05/2021
Eastertide week 7, Acts 20,30; 23, 6-11 - Jn 17, 20-26 Isn’t this a great story? At his trial, Paul, a former pharisee, cleverly setting...
Assumptionists in the UK
May 19, 20212 min read
Wednesday 19/5/2021
Eastertide week 7, Jn 17, 11-19 St Dunstan (909 - 988) was a Benedictine monk, reformer and Archbishop of Canterbury, born near...
Assumptionists in the UK
May 18, 20212 min read
Tuesday 18/05/2021
Eastertide week 7 year B, Act 20, 17-27; Jn17, 1-11 We approach the end of the Acts of the Apostles which culminates in the death of Paul...
Assumptionists in the UK
May 17, 20212 min read
Monday 17/05/2021
Eastertide year B Jn 16, 29-33 Many scams on the internet offer something that is too good to be true and is. Adverts want to convince...
Assumptionists in the UK
May 16, 20212 min read
The Holy Shadow
7th Sunday of Easter 16/05/2021 Jn 17 11-19 Throughout the Easter season we are reminded how much God loves us and we are encouraged to...
bottom of page