Reflections

  Solemnity of the Blessed Trinity - Fr Willie Lee

Jun 05, 2023
This feast is not the time to try and explain how three goes into one! The Trinity is not something that we can understand and figure out with our reasoning, intellect or with our brain.
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  Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Fr Willie Lee

May 31, 2023
Because Mary’s ‘yes’ paved the way for our redemption, we too can sing the Magnificat and our hearts can leap for joy, like John the Baptist in the womb. God has indeed done great things for us.
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  8th Sunday Year C. Lk. Fr Donal McIlraith

Feb 24, 2022
(1.) As disciples, people who follow Jesus, we must take care of our inner, our interior life. We must not be blind, we need to be good teachers with good hearts. (2.) When we put the first two together we see ...
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  6th Sunday Year C by Fr Donal Mcllraith

Feb 03, 2022
Jesus has just prayed on the mountain and chosen the twelve. Then he comes down and three groups are with him: the twelve (“them”), a wider group of disciples, people who are already following ...
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  5th Sunday Year C by Fr Donal Mcllraith

Feb 03, 2022
Mark just tells us that Jesus called Simon, Andrew, James and John and they followed him (Mk 1:18-20). Luke discovered, is seems, that there was a fish miracle involved. The occupation of these four was netting fish. Jesus netted them by using fish! The scene opens by the lake ...
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  7th Sunday Year C. Lk. Fr Donal McIlraith

Feb 03, 2022
This is obviously a part of Jesus’ teaching, indeed, his commands, that we need to come back to again and again. In the first part (vv27-31) the disciples are being ordered to love those who hate and persecute them, to give freely and to keep the golden rule ...
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  Fourth Sunday Year C

Jan 21, 2022
SCC Reflection by Fr Donal McIlraith - Fourth Sunday Year C
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