Cardo Salutis
23rd Sunday after Pentecost In today’s epistle, St Paul admonishes us to live as he lived, that is to say, as the apostles lived. How did the apostles live? They lived in this world, but they were not of this world. They knew they were but wayfarers, passing by for a few hours. How foolish […]
The Word of God Is Not Bound
21st Sunday after Pentecost Today’s Mass presents us with a fascinating mosaic of texts which at first sight might seem somewhat disparate. We have a kind of chiasmus within the Introit Mardochai praying to the Lord with great assurance that all things are in His hand, and in the Communion verse, the Psalmist peacefully trusting […]
Only Empty Hands Can Be Filled
All Saints The feast of All Saints allows us to honour those who have gone before us, having achieved the sanctity to which they were called. It gives us joy to contemplate their glory. It consoles us to know that they can no longer suffer. It fills […]
Pax Christi in Regno Christi
Christ the King Even though the kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ is loudly proclaimed in the Holy Scriptures and has ever been at the heart of our faith, in modern times it has come to be strongly contested. It was before this spectacle of a world that had officially revolted against the sovereign rule […]
A Wedding Not To Miss
19th Sunday after Pentecost At the heart of today’s Gospel, we find a royal wedding, thrown by the King for his Son. Who is this King, and who is this Son, and what is this wedding? The King is God the Father. The Son is the Eternal Word. The Wedding is the union of the […]
Your Weapon of Choice
Solemnity of the Most Holy Rosary The month of October brings back before our minds – even though it is never far away – the wonderful prayer of the Holy Rosary. The feast of the Holy Rosary is on 7 October but is solemnised on the first Sunday of the month. It was on Sunday, […]
Eyes on the Cross
16th Sunday after Pentecost In today’s epistle, St Paul gives us a glimpse of his own interior life with the Blessed Trinity, a life which he longs to share with us. Christ dwells, he says, in our hearts through faith which is grounded in love of God, and that love surpasses all that we can […]
The Tears of a Mother
15th Sunday after Pentecost Today’s Gospel present us with an unusual spectacle. Jesus, surrounded by a great crowd of followers, approaches a town by the name of Naim. As he reaches the town, another great crowd is emerging– it is a funeral cortege, making its way to the local cemetery. The dead man is young, […]
Bitter Sweet Crosses
Exaltation of the Holy Cross On this day, we commemorate the dedication of the Constantinian basilica at the site of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, as well as the day the Cross was triumphantly recovered and brought back to Jerusalem by Emperor Heraclius. These historical events, in the 4th and 7th centuries, respectively, helped the […]