Second Sunday in Lent – Year B – Mk 9: 2-10 Richard Rohr, a Franciscan priest and widely acclaimed spiritual writer, brought out a book a few years ago, entitled “Falling Upwards.” His main thesis in this book is that life is divided into two halves. The first half of life is all about building one’s tower. As you might ...
Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops Conference has emphasized the need to intensify spiritual practices, devoting more time to prayer, and helping people grow in their prayer life and, consequently, their relationship with God as a way of combating the deficit of hope. In a Lenten letter issued on the 12th of February, themed Combating the Deficit of Hope, the Bishops recommended a special kind ...
The first day, as Mark records it, of Jesus’ ministry ends in triumph. ‘The wholetown came crowding round the door.’ He was instantly famous and the disciplesknew it and bathed in his reflected glory. They wanted more. ‘Everyone islooking for you’, they said and they expected him to go on building up hisreputation.He could be ‘The Prophet of Capernaum’. He ...
What do you make of this? ‘Those with wives should live as though they hadnone.’ St Paul seems to be casting a shadow over married life (1 Cor 7: 29)! Yetthe context tells us something else. His theme is ‘our time is growing short.’ Wedo not have much time. He is talking of having the perspective of us living aprovisional ...
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