Reflections

  • The Narrow Door

    Surely the days of teaching about hell fire and damnation are gone. Surely our ever loving and forgiving God wouldn’t exclude anyone from Heaven. Well according to today’s gospel reading we can’t bet on it! We might imagine Heaven’s gates as big and welcoming, but today we hear that it may instead be a narrow…

  • Keeping the Fire Kindled

    If Jesus came back today and joined one of our parishes how would he behave? Could we imagine him on the finance committee, submitting articles for the Link Up, joining our baptismal team, taking charge of our Prayer group or volunteering to decorate the Church for Christmas?. Everything we do for the church is important,…

  • God’s Pension Plan

    A farmer has a lucky year and finds himself with an abundant crop. He decides to tear down his barns and build bigger ones in which to store it. In the meantime, he decides to take a well earned rest, eating drinking and making merry, confident that his future is financially secured. “You fool,” says,…