Reflection for 15 February 2026: 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A)
“If you choose you can keep the commandments, they will save you; if you trust in God, you too shall live; … Before man are life and death, good and evil, whichever he chooses shall be given him” (Sir 15:15, 17).
Dear Marian Helpers and Members of our Marian Family,
I often the hear the common complaint that being Catholic is too difficult or that people don’t want to become Catholic because there are “too many rules.” While it is true that we do like our rules (as does God, I might add), the rules that the Lord has put in place are not arbitrary but instead for a purpose, and one purpose only: love.
In fact, there’s only one rule, which is the rule of love. All of these rules, laws, regulations, commands and ordinances are instituted so that we can grow in love: love of God, love of holiness, love of right conduct and living, love of the Church and love of each other (even if the last one is often the most difficult!)
Following this law of love will bless us. Maybe not physically or financially but we will be blessed spiritually, which of course, is the best blessing we can receive. In this law of love, we find life, because we find God, who is Love, who is Life, who is Joy itself.
This week, I invite you to pray and to ponder on the freedom that comes from following the Lord; freedom from sin, liberty from death and redemption from darkness. And pray for those who do not follow His way that, one day, they too may choose the Law of Lord, which is the law of true love and abundant life.
May God bless you now and always!
Fr Alex Pumphrey, MIC
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Contact Father Alex at info@divinemercy.org.uk
Please send us your prayer intentions! (click here). We will place them at the foot of our altar in the Divine Mercy Apostolate’s Chapel here in West Ealing, London and will remember them in our daily Chaplets of Divine Mercy.
