Liturgical Index
First Sunday of Advent
Cycle: A - 28th November 2010: Seize the Day
In Advent, as we prepare for the annual celebration of a past event - Christ's birth - we are also preparing for a future event - Christ's return in... more »
Cycle: A - 2nd December 2007: Stay Awake!
'Stay awake!' This robust, if ritual, call to vigilance opens the season of Advent; the Gospel seeks to rouse us from the spiritual torpor to which... more »
Christmas is coming! But the very idea that God --- whoever or whatever 'God' might be --- would become incarnate, human like us, seems quite beyond... more »
One of the ways you can tell a culture is by how its members greet each other. In southern Germany and Austria you will be greeted with Grüss Gott -... more »
Jesus takes watching
very seriously. In today's short Gospel reading, Jesus tells us four
times to watch – he's really hammering it home... more »
I am given to understand that sleep deprivation is one of the records which is no longer supported by the Guinness Book of Records, for reasons of... more »
Cycle: B - 27th November 2005: Eager Longing
Every year Christians rightly call for a return to the real meaning of Christmas. Christmas without Christ is a celebration with no clear purpose,... more »
Cycle: B - 1st December 2002: Watch and Wait
Today's Gospel reminds us of the coming of the Son of Man. He can come suddenly at any of the four watches of the night - in the evening, at... more »
“May the Lord be generous in increasing your love.” That is a joyful prayer from our second reading and seems a fitting start for the... more »
So we come to the beginning of Advent and the readings immediately put us on high alert. The Lord is coming, let us be ready! We are told to be... more »
Jesus's words in the Gospel today are grim. He speaks of 'signs in the sun, moon and stars, nations in agony, the clamour of the oceans, men dying of... more »
But take heed to yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life, and that day come upon you... more »
Cycle: C - 3rd December 2000: Stand Upright
'There will be signs in the sun, the moon and the stars and on the earth distress among the nations confused by the roaring of the sea and the... more »
