Neville Kyrke-Smith writes:
A short meditation for 2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time 2026
We can all feel a bit down in the gloom or cold at times. It is also quite easy to get caught up by local, parochial or family matters which means that we don’t look further afield. Yet, the joy of the Catholic Church is that we have a universal faith which we share worldwide. I was abroad recently, and the Mass was the same even if the setting was very different.
Maybe in periods of darkness we can remember the words of that moving hymn, ‘The Day thou gavest Lord has ended’:
‘We thank you that your Church, unsleeping
While earth rolls onward into light,
Through all the world her watch is keeping
And never rests by day or night.’
For as we hear in today’s readings, we are called to “be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ” (I Corinthians 1:2) and reflect the radiant light of Christ in our lives (Isaiah 49:6) for God “will make you a light to the nations, that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth.” Amen.