Easter Sunday 2026 Alleluia! The Lord is Risen, alleluia! With gratitude and joyful hearts, we declare that Christ is Risen. Jesus is Lord. He suffered, died for our sins. By his blood, he has made us sons and daughters of God, by destroying our death. Having offered his body so that death could have its full course, he overpowered death and cancelled our debt to death. On the cross, he disarmed the powers and authorities and triumphed over them (Col 2:14-16). In rising from

PASSION (PALM) SUNDAY   Jesus Triumphantly Enters Jerusalem... Palm Sunday marks the beginning of Holy Week, the most sacred time in the Church’s year. Jesus triumphantly enters Jerusalem. As we carry palms and join the procession, we symbolically follow Christ to Calvary, uniting ourselves with his passion in the hope of sharing in his resurrection. In this Sunday’s Gospel, we hear Jesus being mocked because he couldn’t save himself from being consumed by his love for us. “H

Fifth Sunday of Lent Year A “Out of the depths I cry to you, Lord” This is this Sunday’s psalm (Psalm 130, De Profundis). The Psalmist cries for God’s help from the depths of his misery. He expresses his situation as “depths”. The image of “the depths”, biblically, suggests a state of fear and hopelessness or even death. But the Good News is that ‘the depths’ is not beyond the power of God (Ps 95:4, Ps 77:16, Proverbs 3:20). Thus, God promises in this Sunday’s first reading f

Fourth Sunday of Lent, (Laetare Sunday) Year A We Rejoice On this Laetare Sunday, we are invited to rejoice. We put on lighter vestments to symbolise this joyful mood as we draw closer to Easter Festivities. We started our Lenten Journey by acknowledging our sinfulness. At the transfiguration, we were asked to listen to Jesus.  Last Sunday, we saw that   Jesus is the One who gives the Living Water (Holy Spirit) that quenches our thirst and opens our eyes of faith and makes us

THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT YEAR A 2026 The Living Water In this Sunday’s Gospel, Jesus gently leads the Samaritan woman to God. The Samaritans were despised and considered to be outside God’s plan. Jesus overturns that and approaches the Samaritan woman with compassion. He begins by humbly asking her for water, thus breaking through suspicion and opening the way for a genuine encounter. From this simple request, Jesus gradually leads her to the saving truth. Jesus tells her, “You w

Second Sunday of Lent Year A 2026 Following with Trust No matter how deeply humanity falls into sin, God always has a saving plan, perhaps often unclear to us. However, he invites us to walk in this plan. We see this in Abram’s call in Genesis 12:1-4a, where God asked him to leave his homeland and journey toward an unknown land. What an awkward invitation! Abram does not know the destination, route, or the God who speaks to him. It is a journey from the known into the unknown

FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT YEAR A 2026 The Grace of the Lenten Season On Ash Wednesday, as we responded ‘Amen’ to God’s invitation to repent and believe the Gospel, I prayed that the Holy Spirit may help us recognise our need for repentance. Thus, this Sunday’s readings remind us of our fallenness, but at the same time, they give us hope and invite us to trust and anchor ourselves in God’s all-sufficient grace. The first reading (Genesis 2:7-9) reminds us that from the dust of the

SIXTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR A Living Freely Today’s readings remind us that God’s wisdom, hidden in his words and laws, is not to control but to lead us to true freedom and glory. “The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul…. giving light to the eyes.” “Happy are those who follow God’s law.” (Psalm 19, 119) God’s commandments are therefore not purposeless burdens, but the path to the true life of grace. This becomes clearer in the Gospel (Matthew 5:17–37), where

FIFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR A   Salt of the Earth and Light of the Nations At the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord, Simeon called Jesus, “A Light that enlightens the nations”.  But this Sunday’s readings invite us to see our Christian vocation in the light of Jesus’ identity, which draws from the ancient Israelites’ vocation as the salt of the earth and the light of the world. God’s covenant with the Kingdom of David was a covenant of salt, a covenant of purity an