Daily Reflection

The world is exhausting sometimes. It’s loud. Distracted. Addicted to approval. It tells us our worth depends on success, appearance, productivity, ….

There’s something striking about today’s Gospel. Jesus is about to enter His Passion. The Cross is only hours away. And what does He talk about? – Glory.

In today’s Gospel, the disciples finally say to Jesus, “Now you are talking plainly.” It sounds like they are relieved. Like they finally “get it.” And Jesus responds in a surprising way. He basically says: Do you really?

The Ascension has happened. Jesus is no longer physically with the disciples. And what do they do?

Some of us secretly imagine God the Father as distant, disappointed, or hard to approach. We think of Jesus as the kind one

In today’s Gospel, Jesus says “You will weep and mourn, while the world rejoices… but your grief will become joy.”

The feast of the Ascension of the Lord reminds us that Jesus did not leave His disciples alone.

In today’s first reading, St. Paul walks through Athens, the intellectual capital of the ancient world, and he sees temples, statues, altars everywhere

In today’s Gospel, Jesus says something strange. He tells His disciples, “It is better for you that I go.” Imagine hearing that from someone you love

In today’s Gospel, Jesus He tells His disciples that they will be hated, rejected, even persecuted because of Him

In our First Reading, the people of Samaria hear Philip preach Christ. They believe. They are baptised.

There’s a strange temptation many of us carry without realising it: we want to follow Jesus… but we

There’s a kind of love that costs us nothing. The kind where we stay polite, stay comfortable, stay safe. We say, “I care about you,”

There’s a dangerous lie a lot of us believe without ever saying it out loud. The lie is this: “God will love me more once I finally get my life together.”

We live in a world that’s constantly blurring God. People say “God is just love,” but without meaning it.