Category: Scripture Reflection

Homilies of the day is presented here

I SUNDAY OF LENT: 18 February 2024

Scripture Reflection

ALONEGenesis 9:8-15; 1 Peter 3:18-22; Mark 1:12-15 Many years ago, the explorer Richard Byrd spent a winter alone at the South Pole. Four and a half months in solitude. Why?  Byrd answers that question in his book Alone. Despite his numerous achievements, he felt empty. He wanted to get away “remote from all but the simplest distractions, with no necessities but those imposed by the wind and night and cold.”  Byrd emerged from his experience changed. He discovered that one can live more deeply and profoundly if one keeps life simple, without cluttering it with things. Byrd is like many

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VI SUNDAY OF THE YEAR: 11 February 2023

Scripture Reflection

TOUCHED AND RESTORED TO COMMUNIONLeviticus 13:1-2, 44-46; 1 Corinthians 10:31—11:1; Mark 1:40-45 Years ago, when the speaker of the US House of Representatives Sam Rayburn heard that he had terminal cancer, he shocked everyone by announcing that he was going back to his small town in Bonham, Texas. Everyone told him: “The finest facilities are in Washington, why go back to that little town?” Rayburn said: “Because in Bonham, they know if you’re sick and they care…” All of us need community; all of us need the care and love that comes from community. And yet today, we face an

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