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Third Sunday of Lent - He meets us at the well

Mar 08, 2026
This Sunday invites us to see our own thirst differently. The places where we feel empty, tired, or ashamed are not obstacles to God - they are the very places where Christ waits for us. He pours out the Spirit who heals, restores, and sends.
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Second Sunday of Lent

Mar 01, 2026
Lent invites us into a sacred journey - one that begins in the wilderness of our own weakness and leads us toward the dawning light of new life in Christ. It is a season where God patiently re-creates the human heart, teaching us to trust, to be transformed, and to hope again.
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First Sunday of Lent

Feb 22, 2026
This First Sunday, the beginning of Lent, also takes us, through the Scripture readings, to beginnings - Creation and the preparation of Jesus for his mission.
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Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of renewal in our Lenten journey

Feb 16, 2026
Lent as a pilgrimage can be seen too as a personal journey from darkness to light. Lent is a time of hope and trust as we place our lives before our loving, merciful God.
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The whole of creation cries out with joy

Apr 13, 2025
In the washing of the disciple’s feet, he models for his disciple and us how to embody in our lives a spirit of service to others.
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God delights in Mercy

Apr 06, 2025
The prophet Michah speaks of God as “delighting in showing mercy” (Michah 7,18) and that sums up much of the liturgy of the 5th Sunday of Lent, the last before Palm Sunday, when we begin Holy Week
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A generous God

Mar 30, 2025
All three Scripture readings for the 4th Sunday of Lent present meaningful aspects of the lavish generosity of God.
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It may bear fruit next year.

Mar 23, 2025
As we journey in this Jubilee Year and in this period of Lent, let us work on even just one of these relationships. Let us be conscious that any reconciling of a relationship implies a healing of all our relationships.
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Transfiguration of the body - Transformation of the heart.

Mar 16, 2025
Pope Francis invites us to consider migrants and refugees. As I reflect on the story of the Myanmar refugees, I become aware that it is they who converted me to embrace this journey of hope. I am coming down the mountain in silence.
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A Journey of faith together in hope.

Mar 09, 2025
During this time of Lent, may we allow God to nourish and renew our hearts and minds through prayer and fasting
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Lenten Reflection - A story is a powerful tool

Mar 06, 2023
Within the time it took for the choir to sing out the Easter Gloria, the plain wooden Cross was transformed into a beautiful 'flower tree' of Easter symbols.
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I give you a new commandment; love one another

May 11, 2022
Reflection - Fifth Sunday of Easter 2022 The gospel does not tell us the explicit plan. We are called to trust in God’s abilities, but after the Resurrection, we know how to do those actions that will assist God’s purpose.
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Lord, you know everything, you know I love you

May 01, 2022
Reflection - Third Sunday of Easter 2022 This week the dramatic exchange between Jesus and Peter results in a total affirmation of Jesus by Peter.
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Come down from your Cross, save yourself.

Apr 11, 2022
Reflection - Holy Thursday Night and Good Friday 2022
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The joyful entry riding to His death

Apr 06, 2022
The entrance into Jerusalem was planned, and followers or supporters hailed Jesus as he rode into Jerusalem. We know he was riding to his death, but those present on that happy day were expecting something of this man: success, liberation from bondage, and who knows what else?
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Neither do I condemn you

Apr 03, 2022
The woman caught in adultery is inexplicably saved by Jesus from the mob with a blood lust for her life; Paul of Tarsus, who reveals the deep 'love affair' he has with God in the person of Jesus the risen one; The prophet Isaiah bringing hope to God's people in Babylon: these are encounters inspired…
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For anyone who is in Christ, there is a new creation

Mar 24, 2022
Just as the Eucharist reminds us of Christ's body and the promises he fulfilled in becoming a man and dying for us, the Israelites remembered that Moses led the people out of slavery in Egypt under the guidance of Moses. Memory is such an essential part of our relationship with God, and the events in…
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God has always called the shots

Mar 18, 2022
Jesus came and turned this notion on its head. Scripture scholars explain how the Pharisees would not accept Jesus because he was not made in their image of the Messiah, the chosen one from God.
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The Transfiguration of the Lord

Mar 10, 2022
The readings of the Second Sunday of Lent make us think back to the baptism of Jesus in the Jordan river when a voice declares, “ You are my Son the Beloved, my favour rests on you.” A wonderful spontaneous blessing falls on Jesus as he prepares for his ministry from God.
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A turbulent ministry

Mar 09, 2022
Spiritual writers have used the desert as a symbolic place where humans have to confront themselves, where they have to withstand challenges to their self-esteem, where they have to make the dangerous journey from counting on self to depending on God. All the time the emptiness of the desert, especially…
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