True love is from God. The Holy Spirit lives not only in us but in many people who may seem to be outside the community of faith that is the Church.
We show we are Christians by the generous love we show to one another and to all people, irrespective of race, colour or creed.
Category: Reflections
Christ our hope is risen!
Christ dies to rise again so that his Father will be glorified. We too are brought back to true life in Christ. If we die with him, we will rise with him, and be living witnesses to the power of resurrection.
Jesus is king!
The triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem gives way to his passion and death.
Yet within a few days Jesus will rise triumphant from the dead.
He is the firm ground of our hope that all sufferings in this life are overcome in the power of his resurrection.
I will write my law on their hearts.
Christ, like a grain of wheat that dies in order to produce new life, dies for us.
Following, his example, we are called to realise that if we want eternal life we have to be prepared to give our lives to God. The Lord writes his law in our hearts and we submit humbly to his will, even in times of pain and suffering. There is no greater school in which to grow in holiness.
The Lord is generous with his mercy.
Jesus Christ is given to the world by God the Father so that those who believe in his name may be saved.
He brings us new life because previously we were dead through sin but now we are saved through grace.
We are God’s work of art, created in Jesus Christ.
We Preach a crucified Christ
Christ gave his life in love to his Father; in a way beyond human understanding, his death shows the wisdom of God.
Christ rose again from the dead; the message of eternal life is contained in Christ’s death and resurrection.
God did not spare his own Son.
Christ did not come to explain away suffering; he came to fulfil it.
Like Abraham we are called to be prepared to sacrifice everything to God, and thus we find fulfilment.
God will refuse us nothing now that Christ, risen from the dead, pleads our cause in heaven.
Alive through the waters of baptism.
We die to the world and live to God through the waters of baptism.
We will still be tempted, as Christ was in the wilderness, but if we repent and believe the Gospel we have nothing to fear.
The Lord is faithful to those who keep their promises to him.
Be cured
Like the leper, we cry out to Christ, who alone can cure us of all our troubles and weakness. He reaches out and touches us with his grace, telling us to be cured. We belong to Christ in the company of the saints, and are called to do everything for the glory of God. We are a people of joy because we know that Christ delivers us from our sins.
Looking for Christ
Jesus Christ gives meaning to our lives. Without him life can seem no better than hired drudgery, but with his Spirit in us, all our service of others is done for love. This is a service that brings perfect freedom. The world needs Christ, and it is our calling to bring him to everyone.