The Incarnation Continued
Corpus Christi Today we solemnise the feast of the Most Blessed Sacrament, the feast of Corpus Christi, the feast of God – Fête-Dieu, as the French so touchingly style it. The day on which we commemorate how God determined to pay us a visit in order to save us from sin and hell, and then […]
A Thought To Dwell Upon Forever
Trinity Sunday I am with you always, even to the consummation of the world. Before Our Blessed Lord returned to Heaven, He gave to His Apostles the Great Commission, which, to tell the truth, was pretty much an impossible task. Go and convert the whole world! That was the command to these twelve poor, and […]
So Is Every One That Is Born Of The Spirit
Pentecost Sunday Today, my dear Brothers and Friends, we celebrate the great solemnity of the Holy Ghost, the Third Person of the Blessed Trinity who, according to the creed that we shall recite in a few moments, is “Lord and Giver of Life, who proceedeth from the Father and the Son, who with the Father […]
Of Kidnapping The Pope
Mary Help of Christians God has willed that we should receive all things through Mary. So speaks St Bernard of Clairvaux in a homily we read this morning at Matins. This phrase is among the most important patristic texts that point to the universal mediation of Mary. In support of this affirmation, St Bernard refers […]
My Father And Your Father
Ascension Thursday I ascend to My Father and your Father, to my God and to your God. The feast of the Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ offers us many points for reflection. First of all, we can admire the paternal solicitude of our Saviour who, after His resurrection, willed to stay among His apostles […]
The Word That Shook The Foundations Of The World
Fifth Sunday after Easter The Father Himself loves you. On this last Sunday before the Ascension of Our Lord, Holy Mother Church reads to us that final discourse of Our Lord with His disciples, specifically the passage in which we are encouraged to lift up our minds and hearts with total confidence. Our Lord gives […]
There Let Our Hearts Be
Fourth Sunday after Easter Quo vadis – Where art Thou going, Lord? Throughout Eastertide our eyes are turned in the direction of eternal life, life with God, in the very bosom of the Father. The Church turns our gaze to the goal, the promised land, the place – for Heaven is indeed a place – […]
Without Fear Or Shame
We speak what we know and we testify to what we have seen. Today’s celebration commemorates both the discovery of the Holy Cross of Our Lord by St Helena in the early 4th century and its recovery in the 7th century. Both events led to triumphal celebrations of the Christian faithful that, ever since the […]
The Price Of Being A Shepherd
Good Shepherd Sunday I call them each by name. On this Sunday, called Good Shepherd Sunday, Holy Mother Church places before our eyes the image of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Shepherd of all the faithful. It is to St John the Evangelist that we owe today’s beautiful and consoling lesson, which is the heart of […]