A Lesson From St Mary Of The Cross
There is a small little book, worth its weight in gold, called Uniformity with God’s will by St Alphonsus Liguori. It is outstanding for its capacity to help the soul read all the events of its life in the light of God’s will. God has a plan for each of us and “for those who […]
We Have Received Mercy
In today’s introit, the mercy of God is extolled. “We have received Thy mercy in the midst of Thy temple”. What is the temple of God if not the Church? It is in and through the Church and her sacraments that mercy is shown to the world and to each soul in particular. But the […]
The Providence That Never Fails Those Who Love
The best commentary of this week’s oration which contains that magnificent and ever consoling expression, “Deus cuius providentia … non fallitur – God, whose providence never fails”, must certainly be St Paul’s words to the Romans: “we know that to them that love God all things work together unto good” (Rom 8:28). How consoling is […]
The Greater Love
During the Discourse after the Last Supper, Our Blessed Lord gave us the sign at which His true disciples can be recognised: At this will all men know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. That fraternal love is exemplified in today’s Gospel in which Our Lord, repeating but perfecting […]
Solemnity Of St Benedict
Vir Dei Benedictus, so we sing in today’s liturgy. Benedict was indeed a man of God, a man sent by God, a man intent on God, a man whose whole life was about and for God. And this is perhaps the first thing Benedict has to teach the world today. There is a God who […]
Duc In Altum
Put out into the deep The fickleness of our human nature is such that we all too often content ourselves with the superficial, the facade, the appearances. It takes effort to move beyond, to enter into the depths of our heart, to “put out into the deep” waters of real and authentic spirituality, to accept […]
Inebriated With The Spirit
These men are not drunk, given it is but the third hour of the day. Thanks to these words of St Peter we know the precise time of day of the descent of the Holy Spirit: the third hour, the hour of Terce, that is, according to our modern reckoning, nine o’clock in the morning. […]
The Feast Of Hope
The Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ, 40 days after Easter, should fill us with great joy and confidence. We know that Our Lord took the long, hard road to glory. We know that He was plunged into the depths of the most excruciating sufferings and desolation, humiliated even into the very bowels of the […]
Why The World Cannot Receive Him
The great solemnity of the Holy Spirit is upon us, and we ask the Third Person of the Blessed Trinity to deign to come into our hearts, bringing His Light, His Peace, His Fortitude, His Consolation. But before this can happen, we must first receive the grace of conversion which brings with it the grace […]