Posts by Derek & Karen Boylen

  Gospel Reflections for Married Couples 28 February – 3rd Sunday of Lent  In this week’s Gospel, Jesus invites us to repentance and to make real changes that will bear fruit as in the parable of the fig tree. Are there areas in your married life which need work? Behaviours that have crept into day-to-day life for…

  Gospel Reflections for Married Couples 21 February – 2nd Sunday of Lent  In today’s Gospel, Peter, James and John experience the Transfiguration on Mount Tabor. It was an intense mystical experience and the reading ends with the words “the disciples kept silence and, at that time, told no one what they had seen.” Take some time…

  Gospel Reflections for Married Couples 14 February – 1st Sunday of Lent  In this week’s Gospel reading, the devil tries unsuccessfully to tempt Jesus in the wilderness. It’s an experience that any married couple can relate to. Take a moment to reflect on the temptations that married couples can fall prey too. Infidelity in marriage means…

  Gospel Reflections for Married Couples 7 February – 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time In this week’s Gospel, Jesus after teaching at the shore asks some fishermen (Simon Peter and his companions) to put out their nets. They must have been thinking “what would a carpenter’s son know about fishing?” Yet their catch was SO extra ordinary…

  Gospel Reflections for Married Couples 31 January – 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time In this week’s Gospel, Jesus says to the crowd that “no prophet is ever accepted in his own country.” On our wedding day, God promised to make his grace available to us to strengthen our marriage. However, there can be challenges, or sometimes,…

  Gospel Reflections for Married Couples 24 January – 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time In this week’s Gospel, Jesus proclaims in the synagogue that he has been sent to bring the Good News to the poor, proclaim liberty to captives, give the blind sight and set the downtrodden free. Sometimes couples can feel all of these…

  Gospel Reflections for Married Couples 17 January – 2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time In this week’s Gospel, we have the extra ordinary example of Mary’s complete faith in her Son at the Wedding of Cana. When we marry in the Church, God enters into a covenant with us promising to make his grace available at every…

  Gospel Reflections for Married Couples 10 January – The Baptism of the Lord In this week’s Gospel reading, some people are beginning to think that St John the Baptist might be Christ. Instead of taking the glory for himself he humbly points them in the direction of Jesus. Sometimes, in marriage we can steal the limelight…

  Gospel Reflections for Married Couples 3 January – The Epiphany of the Lord In this week’s Gospel, the wise men visit Jesus bearing gifts. Take a moment this week to reflect, as a couple, on the wise men and women (couples) in your life to whose marriages you aspire. As you reflect on these…

  Gospel Reflections for Married Couples 25 December | Christmas At Christmas, we are called to reflect on the great love of a God who humbled himself to become a person like us. On Christmas Day, we celebrate Jesus coming into the world to teach us how to love. He does so in the most humble…