Regina Coeli, Laetare!
Easter Sunday It took them a while to figure it out. The Apostles had come a very long way. From their initial encounters with the Rabbi from Nazareth, through the three years of their formation with Him, the witnessing of the miracles and the learning of all the lessons He taught with His words and […]
The Harmony of God’s Plan
Paschal Vigil On this holy night on which Holy Mother Church gives us such a rich and diverse selection of sacred texts and holy rituals, it would be easy to miss seeing the forest for the trees. To be true, the liturgy of this night is so grandiose that for those who are not familiar […]
Behold the Man – Behold the Church
Good Friday When Pilate had Our Blessed Lord brought out to the people and pronounced the well-known words: Ecce Homo – Behold the Man, the Saviour had become unrecognisable. This may have been precisely what inspired the words in the first place. As Psalm 21 reminds us, Our Lord appeared more like a worm than […]
Loving to the End
Maundy Thursday More than the other evangelists, St John seeks to help us penetrate inside Our Lord’s dispositions as He prepares Himself to suffer His passion. He commences his description of the last hours of Our Blessed Lord’s life with these words: Jesus, knowing that His hour was come, that He should pass out of […]
Success in Failure
Palm Sunday From the perspective of anyone without the faith, the life of Christ was one gigantic failure. His obituary might have read something like this: Of spurious ancestry, born in a dirty stable, practiced a back-breaking, low-paying trade, turned himself into a rabbi without an education, had a flair for creating enthusiasm among the […]
The Friends Of The Cross
Passion Sunday In today’s Gospel we hear Our Blessed Lord point out to the Pharisees the main reason they do not understand what He has been trying to tell them. He who is of God hears the words of God; therefore you hear them not because you are not of God (Jn 8:47). They heard […]
My Body For You
Fourth Sunday in Lent – Laetare In the midst of our Lenten austerities, Holy Mother Church invites us to rejoice. Laetare, laetitia, expresses an overflowing joy, one of victory. Indeed, we are on the threshold of the greatest of victories, that of Our Lord Jesus Christ over the powers of death and hell. One of […]
Dogs Are Meant to Bark
Third Sunday in Lent Today in Sydney, hundreds if not thousands of people will gather at Parliament House in defence of unborn life. They will give a voice to those who have no voice. They will speak out by their mere presence in favour of the victims of the gravest form of injustice the world […]
Awe Before the Gift
St Benedict 1,478 years ago today, our holy Father St Benedict gave up his pure, humble soul to God. Since then, he has not ceased to gather together disciples around the world in monasteries of both monks and nuns, in every country, clime and language …. All the sons and daughters of St Benedict seek […]
