You Are Not Yours
6th Sunday after Pentecost This morning at Matins, we were given to read of the exemplary penance of King David after his double crime of adultery and murder. David’s fall was tragic; it was a disgrace. After all he had received from God, he fell into the most abominable of crimes. And so far was […]
Honouring All Men
5th Sunday after Pentecost Today’s Gospel reminds us of our common origin. All men are brothers because they are all born of the same first parents and are all redeemed with the Precious Blood of the same Saviour. This being so, it is incumbent upon us to treat each other as brothers, that is to […]
Fear Not the Deep
4th Sunday after Pentecost In today’s Gospel, we contemplate Our Blessed Lord in Simon Peter’s boat, preaching to the people on the shore. At the end of His teaching, Jesus gives to Peter alone the command: launch out into the deep. Peter replies that they have spent the whole night fishing and have found nothing. […]
The Heart of the Apostles
Saints Peter and Paul On this day, the blood of the two apostles of Rome, the pillars of the Church, Peter and Paul, was poured out in sacrifice. Like his Saviour, St Peter was crucified, but out of humility, asked to be crucified upside down, esteeming himself unworthy to suffer as Our Lord. He was […]
La Fête-Dieu
Corpus Christi This feast, which we refer to as Corpus Christi, is known to the French as la Fête-Dieu, an expression that carries a double meaning. It is the Feast of God, for on it we honour God who is among us in the Most Blessed Sacrament, but it is also a feast that God […]
You Become What You Worship
Trinity Sunday From the dawn of history, ever since our first parents were expelled from the Garden of Eden, every civilisation has sought commerce with the divine, groping in the dark, desperate to know something, anything really, about the power that rules over the universe. Most of them achieved a partial knowledge of the divine, […]
Dead Bones Will Live
Pentecost Sunday Fifty days after the Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the New Covenant, sanctified by the Blood of the true Lamb of God, is solemnly promulgated by the outpouring of the Third Person of the Blessed Trinity. The Catholic Church, the Bride of Christ, the only Ark of Salvation, is founded, and the […]
Sitting In Prayer With Mary
Sunday after the Ascension The apostles had seen Our Blessed Lord disappear into the Heavens taken up by a cloud; in obedience to His command, they go and “sit in the city” until the power would be given from on high for the mission to which they were destined. They go there with Our Blessed […]
The Never Ending Dominion
Ascension Thursday In today’s epistle and gospel, we are told by St Luke and St Mark of the last moments Our Lord spent with His disciples before the Ascension: the last meal, the final instructions, and the astonishing event of the Ascension itself – Our Blessed Lord rises in the air, before the stunned gaze […]