Fr. Denis Travers, CP

In today’s gospel, Jesus encourages us to exercise such generosity. In such ways, the reign of God is made manifest. 

Jesus by even being there, demonstrates once more the extraordinary dimensions of his ‘boundary breaking’ ministry...

Ignoring God in favour of our own perspectives or inflated sense of self-reliance is like closing a door and hiding from the relationship. 

Today our focus is drawn towards Mary since the liturgy of today celebrates her birth - a Feast Day that has been celebrated in the Church from around the sixth century...

When God reigns, love is the ultimate determinant and most obvious part of human living.

So a lesson for us today may well be that if we set out to make our lives a ‘continual service’ to those we love and to those who need us, then although it is not our goal or aim, we will receive back in return.

What do we labour for? What is our deeper motivation, and what gives us the capacity to persist and achieve all that we have set out to do and be in life?