Lectio Divina – Weekly Video Reflections on the Sunday Gospel
We invite you to participate in the Gospal reflection for the next Sunday with Bishop David Walker, Fr John Frauenfelder and Virginia Ryan.
These Lectio Reflections provide the framework to develop our faith life. Our faith is in Jesus who comes to us as the human face of God. Faith life is human life lived in a deeply personal and intimate relationship with Jesus. Jesus is our friend and lover, the most significant point of reference in our life. We need to lead our life conscientiously and intentionally so that all that we do is done within the context of our love relationship with Jesus. Lectio Divina is one of the ways we can develop this.
When Faith Steps Out of the Boat
A Reflection on Matthew 14:22–33 – Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A) There are moments in the Gospels when a familiar story becomes so well known that we risk overlooking its depth. The account of Jesus walking on the water is one of those passages. We remember Peter stepping…
Into the Deep: leaving the safety of the shoreline.
A Reflection on Luke 5:1-11 There is a moment in Luke’s Gospel that I think captures something essential about the whole Christian journey. Jesus has been teaching beside the Lake of Gennesaret when he tells Simon Peter to take the boat out into deeper water and lower the nets. Peter…
The Treasure Worth Everything
Lectio Reflection – Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time – Matthew 13:44-52 (Year A 2026) As we come to the end of this section of Matthew’s Gospel devoted to the parables of the Kingdom, Jesus gives us several final images: treasure hidden in a field, a merchant searching for fine pearls,…
The Soil of the Heart
Lectio Reflection – Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Matthew 13:1-23 (Year A 2026) The Parable of the Sower is probably one of the best-known parables in the Gospels. Most of us have heard it many times. We know about the seed that falls on the path, the rocky ground, among…
Loyalty, the Cross, and the Cost of Discipleship
Lectio Reflection – Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Matthew 10:37-42 (Year A 2026) There are some Gospel passages that comfort us immediately, and there are others that unsettle us before they console us. This Sunday’s Gospel is one of the latter. It contains words of Jesus that can sound hard…
Mission: Sharing the Life of Jesus with the World
Introduction The Church exists for mission. Every structure, ministry, sacrament, and form of pastoral care ultimately serves the mission entrusted to the Church by Christ: “Go into all the world and preach the Gospel to the whole creation” (Mk 16:15). Yet mission is often misunderstood. It is frequently reduced to…
Articles & Writing from Bishop David Walker
When Faith Steps Out of the Boat
A Reflection on Matthew 14:22–33 – Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A) There are…
The Hand That Steadies
The Hand That SteadiesReflection on Matthew 14:22–33 The image of Peter stepping from the boat…
Will I reach out my hand?
The gospel reading for Sunday, Matthew14:22-33 describes what it feels like to be sinking, without…
Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year A
There is a message of presence in today’s readings, but not a passive presence. It…
Lectio Reflection – Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time – Matthew 14:22-33 (Year A 2026)
