Posts made in January, 2010

31 January 2010 – Fourth Sunday

Posted by on Jan 31, 2010 in Sunday Reflections | 0 comments

Gospel : Luke 4 : 21 – 30 Year C After reading Isaiah …. You have just read a beautiful message of hope from the Prophet Isaiah, addressed to the poor, the prisoners, the oppressed…. The first reaction of Your contemporaries is positive: He won the approval of all… they remained astonished as one is before a brilliant orator: How well He speaks! But they don’t understand the grace that is offered to them. This text is being fulfilled to-day …. You try to enlighten them …. They must open their eyes to their situation; they must understand that they themselves are these prisoners, these blind people of whom Isaiah speaks and who need a Saviour….. But they do not admit to this. They do not want to let themselves be challenged. So it is You that they call into question: after all, You are only the son of Joseph! So stay in Your place as a carpenter! Don’t come teaching us lessons! However, You continue Your efforts to open their hearts, to invite them to be like God Who loves all people. And for this, You chose some examples which will provoke them: In Elijah’s day … it is a stranger who is protected from the famine; In Elisha’s time … it is also a pagan who is cured of leprosy! At these words, everyone was enraged They do not want to follow You on the way of openness to others. They do not want to see the calls which God addresses to them through people who are not of their own kind, who are not like them! Lord, how I sometimes am like them! Let me listen to You, even if this upsets me, even if it obliges me to change my behaviour …. Let me place myself among those who need You, to-day …. every...

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Retiring Collection for Haiti

Posted by on Jan 27, 2010 in Liverpool Shrine, NEWS | 0 comments

The Blessed Sacrament Shrine wishes to thank its churchgoers who have generously responded to the retiring collection for Haiti at all the masses last weekend, January 23-24, 2010. The total amount collected was £2,330.00. Thank you very...

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24 January 2010-Third Sunday

Posted by on Jan 24, 2010 in Sunday Reflections | 0 comments

Gospel : Luke 4 : 14 – 21 Year C Jesus, with the power of the Spirit in Him, returned to Galilee, St. Luke has often noted the important place the Spirit has in Your life, Lord. Is this not an important teaching for all of us? It is through the Spirit that Mary gave You a human body, Jesus. At Your Baptism, the Spirit was seen to descend on You. And the voice of the Father proclaims You as His Beloved Son. It is the Spirit that drives You into the desert where, for 40 days, You know the tough experience of the Hebrew people in the Sinai desert. There, You teach us to resist the tempter in nourishing us with the Word which came from the mouth of God. You begin Your ministry by referring to the Prophet Isaiah: The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me. It is He Who sends You to bring Good News : to proclaim new sight to the blind …. to prisoners, freedom… Teach us to let ourselves be guided, in everything, by the Spirit, like You. He taught in the Synagogues …. You continue to-day to ‘teach’, especially every Sunday, just like on the Sabbath day long ago. Do we know how to listen to You like the crowds who came to You? All eyes in the Synagogue were fixed on Him …. Grant us, Lord, a thirst for Your Word, the desire for light in order to see our lives more clearly: Your Word is a lamp for my steps and a Light for my path (Ps. 118). May the Spirit come to assist us in understanding Your Word. It is He Who inspired It. May He fill us with It, and make us live by It! Grant us a thirst for the Spirit, the true living water which You promised us and which You give us through the Eucharistic Celebration to make us live as children of God, with You, in...

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Mass to conclude Week of Prayer for Christian Unity

Posted by on Jan 22, 2010 in Liverpool Shrine, NEWS | 0 comments

The Blessed Sacrament Shrine in 4 Dawson Street Liverpool invites all to the 12.10 Mass on Monday, 25th January 2010, as a concluding Mass of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. Canon Christopher Cook, Vicar of St. Agnes, Liverpool is the preacher. All are...

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17 January 2010-Second Sunday

Posted by on Jan 17, 2010 in Sunday Reflections | 0 comments

Gospel : John 2 : 1 – 11 Year C There was a wedding at Cana in Galilee ….. You begin Your Ministry in Palestine by taking part in a wedding feast! ”A strange way to announce the Word of God!”. You will one day be challenged about Your behaviour; You will remark: The Son of man came; He eats and drinks and they say: He is a glutton and a drunkard! (Matt. 11:19). So what do You want to say to us by this sharing in the wedding feast? You refer us back to the Bible. Often the image of wedding expresses the love of God for His people. Your action tells us that the New Covenant announced by the Prophets has come. You explain it in Your parables: The Kingdom of Heaven is like a wedding feast which a King prepared for his son (Mt.22). You have come to espouse our sinful humanity. You invite each one to live a covenant of love with You. The wine ran out … In the Bible, wine is the symbol of joy, the sign of divine blessing. Wine which has run out expresses the distress of people far from God. You have seen this distress and You descended among us so that we would have the fullness of joy (Jn.17:15). You will say it to Your disciples on the last evening of Your life. But from the start of Your apostolate, You illustrate it at Cana during this wedding. And You don’t stint on the means: – six jars, around six hundred litres! It must be enough for all the people on earth! – – and it’s not any ordinary wine, but a really “superior” wine, like they had never before tasted! The good wine kept until now, that of Your love for us. Thank You Lord, for the covenant of my Baptism, which makes me a child of God, which makes me share Your divine life. Thank You for the good wine of Your love which You give us to drink at the Eucharistic celebration, and which is Your Blood, Your risen...

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