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This Sunday's gospel has two quite different stories of Jesus healing. One story interrupts the other and at first I wondered why St. Mark who wrote the gospel didn't sort them out and give them separately, as they are obviously quite different. In fact, the short form of the gospel cuts out the interruption - and that is a pity because the two mir...

To answer this question we must first look at the Old Covenant (Old Testament) as a foreshadowing of what was fulfilled in the New Covenant (New Testament) in Jesus.Our first glimpse of a priest is found when Abraham met Melchizedek, the King of Salem (Jerusalem) who was a priest of God of the highest heaven, who brought him bread and wine. (Gen. 1...

The disciples were in a turmoil! Their leader, Simon Peter, had just professed his belief that Jesus was the Christ, the Son of the Living God. To their horror Jesus began to tell them that He would be put to death. At the time, it meant nothing to them that He also added that after three days He would rise from the dead.Simon Peter, out of sheer l...

Enter your text here .To prepare for Sunday Mass it is a good idea to read and give thought to the readings in your missal or Bible. Here are some questions to ponder. First Reading [Exodus 20:1-17] What is the difference between the Ten Commandments and the two that Jesus emphasised — love God and love your neighbor? Second Reading [1 Corinthians ...

To prepare for Sunday Mass it is a good idea to read and give thought to the readings in your missal or Bible. Here are some questions to ponder. First Reading [Leviticus 13:1-2, 44-46] A leper in Jesus' time was rejected by society and regarded as being punished for sinfulness. Are some people treated in a similar way today? Second Reading [1 Cori...

 To prepare for Sunday Mass it is a good idea to read and give thought to the readings in your missal or Bible. Here are some questions to ponder. First Reading [Job 7:1-4, 6-7] Sometimes, do you feel like Job in this reading? Can you have faith in God, even if you don't understand why people suffer? Second Reading [1 Corinthians 9:16-19, 22-2...

To prepare for Sunday Mass it is a good idea to read and give thought to the readings in your missal or Bible. Here are some questions to ponder. First Reading [Deuteronomy 18:15-20] Does God raise ordinary people from our midst to become prophets? Is there a cause for which you might become a prophet? Second Reading [1 Corinthians 7:32-35] "I shou...

​Greetings Brothers and Sisters. My theme for the 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time 'Jesus in a nutshell' because find in just a few sentences St. Mark describes how He laid down the foundations for His establishing the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. We are told Jesus, commonly known as the 'Carpenter's Son' went from Nazareth to Galilee. "There He pro...

​CHOSEN BY CHRISTI don't think Jesus would have taken to Twitter, where the aim seems to be to get as many "likes" as you can. Jesus made it clear to his disciples, "You did not choose me – I chose you." That explains why people found that, unlike others, Jesus spoke with authority. The rabbis and other religious leaders did not choose their discip...

​To say that you are called can have two quite different meanings. If someone says "What are you going to call the baby?" obviously, they mean what name you are going to give the child, but if they say, "Quick, call the children", the calling then is asking them to come. When I say that Christ is calling me, it has both meanings; he calls me person...

​New Year's Greetings, Brothers and Sisters!. I wish to share with you a few thoughts taken from the Gospel of today, THE 2nd SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME.What a friend we have in Jesus!What a friend Jesus had in John the Baptist! Why am I so enthusiastic about John?Because he was the man chosen by God to prepare the way of the Lord – when the Lord happ...

​Coming! Coming! Coming!......Come!.....Gone! This describes the huge, even extravagant, build-up to Christmas, it's brief but joyful celebration, and then it's all over. This closure is eloquently stated by the return to school at the end of the vacation. To some it may seem that the Church wraps up Christmas neatly by celebrating the So...

THE COMING OF THE MAGIWhat a strange story St Matthew tells us in his gospel: Magi (magicians or wise men?) following a star. How on earth do you follow a star? And how can a star stop over a particular house? If a star or meteor stopped right over Barbados, everyone in the island would say "it was just above my house". St Luke's account of Bethleh...

​The theme for Pope Francis' annual World Day of Peace message for 2018 is: "Migrants and Refugees: Men and Women in Search of Peace."In his 2018 Message for the World Day of Peace. . . (January 1) Pope Francis urges us to turn a "contemplative gaze" toward our migrant and refugee brothers and sisters and to respond to their plight with four "milep...

​The trouble with pictures of the Holy Family is that they always look so holy. Even when they had the terrible experience of rushing off to Egypt as refugees, most illustrations give the impression that they're going off on holiday with Mary sitting side-saddle, sedately holding the baby.This first Sunday after Christmas, is celebrated as the feas...

​Bishop Arnold Boghaert Catholic CentreTurkey Lane, P.O. Box 790Roseau, Commonwealth of DominicaTel. (767) 448-2837 – (767) 448-8717Fax (767) 448-3404e.mail: bishop@cwdom.dm24th December, 2017.Dear Brothers in the Episcopate, Clergy & Religious and faithful in the AEC Region & beyond,The last three months have been quite daunting for the Ch...

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Greetings all, The following link is for the Christmas Magazine containing the Christmas Message by the Apostolic Administrator.. I invite you to visit it and share it with your family and friends.Wishing you all a happy and blessed Christmas.

​You are invited to view this schedule of all masses to be held throughout the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgetown during the period 24th December to 1st January, 2018.  Please make an effort to visit at least one parish other than your own during this Christmas Season. Merry Christmas to you all. Wishing you God's greatest blessings for...

(Greetings brothers and sisters! I'm Fr. Peter Clarke, standing in for my brother Isidore who is not well enough to write the weekly reflection.) In the Gospel for the 4th Sunday of Advent (Lk 1 :26-38). we hear how Mary willingly accepted the huge responsibility God wished to entrust to her – to be the mother of one who would " be great and b...