A Daily Vitamin, Spiritual Reflections
Great and Holy SaturdayThe Sign of Jonah We look for crocuses as a sign of spring. We look for clouds as a sign of rain. As we behold the sealed tomb of Christ, as all mortal flesh falls silent on this Great and Holy Sabbath, what signs should we be looking for? On...
A Daily Vitamin, Spiritual Reflections
Great FridayOn the night when He gave Himself… Behold, this Child is appointed for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign that is opposed…so that thoughts from many hearts may be revealed. (Luke 2:34-35) Today the prophecy of the elder Simeon is...
A Daily Vitamin, Spiritual Reflections
Great and Holy Thursday‘Do this in remembrance of Me…’ Memory is at the heart of the service of Great and Holy Thursday – Our Lord’s inauguration of the Eucharist, or Holy Communion, in the Upper Room. What is more, it is a very special kind of memory. We all know...
A Daily Vitamin, Spiritual Reflections
Great and Holy Wednesday‘Keep awake…for you know not the day or the hour’ The earthly ministry of Our Lord was marked by powerful declarations about the nature and reality of the Kingdom of God through parables and exhortations like the Sermon on the Mount. So too in...
A Daily Vitamin, Spiritual Reflections
Great and Holy Tuesday‘Make radiant the garment of my soul’… Few could imagine six months ago that the world would be turned upside down by pestilence. Had we known, would we not have been better equipped? The Lord Jesus Christ asked: ‘When the Son of Man comes, will...
A Daily Vitamin, Spiritual Reflections
Great and Holy Monday‘Behold, the bridegroom comes…’ In Eighth Century B.C. Israel, the Lord God instructed the prophet Hosea to marry the prostitute Gomer to teach His people by drawing a parallel. God loved His chosen people with all the fidelity of a devoted...
