Laetare Sunday 2023

Laetare Sunday 2023

Our Readings for today are concerned about our perception, how we see things and our inability to see things as they are. Most importantly, how we can see with the eyes of faith and understand with our hearts. “God does not see as man sees; man looks at appearances,...
3rd Sunday of Lent 2023

3rd Sunday of Lent 2023

We are in the third Sunday of Lent and how have you been responding to the invitation of Prayer, Fasting and Almsgiving? The first reading talks about how the people quickly forgot about God’s intervention when they needed Him (God) and started complaining about...
2nd Sunday of Lent 2023

2nd Sunday of Lent 2023

Journey of Life and Death One of the old images we still use to describe life is the “journey” that we all make from the womb to the grave. The image of the journey speaks of a passage through time and places. It is a journey which includes the people we have met, the...
1st Sunday of Lent 2023

1st Sunday of Lent 2023

Theme: The Mystery of Freedom   Today’s Gospel presents a familiar episode in the life of Jesus: the devil tempted Him when He was in the desert to prepare himself Spiritually for his ministry. The devil’s temptation focused on 3 crucial areas:   Physical...
2023 Lenten Reflection

2023 Lenten Reflection

This reflection originally appeared in an email to Knights and Dames of the Holy Sepulchre, Eastern Lieutenancy and has been reprinted here for the Knights of St. John with permission from the authoring priest.  Lenten Reflection As we begin yet another Lenten journey...
Second Sunday in Lent 2022

Second Sunday in Lent 2022

The second Sunday of Lent is always the account of the Transfiguration. If the first Sunday of Lent is a striking reminder of Jesus’s solidarity with us in temptation, the second Sunday is meant to remind us that the glory that burst forth from Jesus’s body is a glory...