Hetki Jeesukselle / Time for Jesus

A meditation on the coming of the Holy Spirit. Preached in Prague on 2 June 2025. (Image by Tim Mossholder from Pixabay)

A meditation on holiness and the Holy Spirit on the 6th Sunday of Easter.

Meditation in Oxford at the beginning of Lent. Episode image: a detail from William Holman Hunt's "Light of the World" (1853).

The sower went out to sow...

Meditation on the feast of saints Peter and Paul.

"Have you no faith?" Mark 4:35-41. Meditation on the 12th Sunday of ordinary time.

A morning meditation on supernatural magnanimity. God's grace makes us capable of higher dreams.

A meditation on human and supernatural maturity.

Meditation on the 5th Sunday of Easter. We imagine ourselves in the company of Paul and Barnabas and other early disciples of Christ. What was the attraction of Jesus? How can we take care of everyone?

Kiirastorstain mietiskely eukaristian lahjasta.

We enter into the holy week through this Palm Sunday meditation in the Cross of Christ.

Jesus gives us a challenging teaching: Mt 16:24-25: "Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it." But what does it mean in practice? How can we live it out in our daily lives?

Pyhä Joosef oli "oikeudenmukainen" mies. Se pitää sisällään kyvyn työskennellä ja käyttää aikaa hyvin. Toisaalta hän opettaa meille Raamatun mukaisesti asioiden oikeaa arvojärjestystä.

Joulun lähestyessä mietiskelemme Marian esimerkkiä. Hänen kauttaan Jumala opettaa meille, mikä tekee elämästämme suurta ja arvokasta. (Nauhoitettu 22.12.20.)

Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross.

A meditation on our Christian vocation: the Gospel according to Luke chapter 5.

A meditation on John's Gospel, chapters 1, 15, and 19.

Matthew 13, parables and conversion of heart.

Jesus' call to conversion. We need to resist the spirit of the times.

We're called to become saints even when we are sinners. In this meditation we consider two aspects of holiness: God's power triumphing against temptations and trials, and God's love winning in spite of our sins.

Kiitollisuus on vallankumouksellista. Mietiskely kiitollisuudesta ja anteliaisuudesta pienessä ja suuressa.

Feast of John the Baptist is coming. Today, memorial of Saints John Fisher and Thomas More, we meditate on vocation, courage, humility, and martyrdom.

Mietiskely ripin lahjasta.

Mietiskely Jumalan lasten rukouksesta.

Meditating on the Eucharist on the feast and eight days' devotion to the real presence of Christ.

Mietiskely pyhästä eukaristiasta.

The Holy Trinity is the central mystery of Christian faith and life. What difference does it make?

Meditation before Pentecost. What is the Holy Spirit like? How does he act? Four consequences: holiness - going out - magnanimity - optimism.

Toukokuu, Neitsyt Marian kuukausi.

The gift of the Holy Spirit is the greatest gift that God could have given us, and the greatest gift he has in fact given us. How do we appreciate this gift? How do we seek the Holy Spirit? In the meditation we go deeper into this gift by contemplating biblical images as well as texts from the living tradition of the Church.

"Let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God: believe also in me. In my Father's house there are many mansions. If not, I would have told you: because I go to prepare a place for you. And if I shall go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself: that where I am, you also may be." (John 14)

Johanneksen evankeliumin luku 10.

Meditation on Saint Philip the Apostle. He's an enquirer that teaches us many lessons about how to relate to God and others.

"Blessed are they who follow the law of the Lord". A meditation on the gift of the law and the renewal of the heart.

Mark. 8:27-33. Kuka sinä olet, Jeesus, minulle?

Jesaja 55 profetia. Jumalan voima ja lahjat.

Transfiguration. Prayer and silence with God.

Lent, a period of conversion and grace.

Jeesuksen paasto ja sydämen kääntymys.

Matt. 5. Meidän apostolinen kutsumuksemme.

We rise up to God with our heart. A meditation on Mark 7.

Feast of Presentation of Jesus in the Temple.

The conversion of Saint Paul. Seek the encounter.

Jeesuksen paimenellinen sydän.

A week of prayer for the unity of Christians. Why is unity so important to the Church? What could we do to work for it?

Mietiskely Jumalan lapseudesta.

Baptism of Jesus. And ours.

Let us make New Year's resolutions in this spirit: Everything is Grace.

New Year's meditation on Luke 2:16-20.

A meditation on the event leading to Christmas, the birth of Christ.

Advent meditation on the expectation of the kingdom of God.