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…

5-7 June 2025  This year our entrance into the month of the Sacred Heart coincides with our preparation for the great feast of Pentecost. This is quite providential. St Thomas, referring to the fact that in the Old Covenant the sacrifices of the Law…

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…

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 –…

Fifth Sunday after Easter  Amen, amen, I say to you: if you ask the Father any thing in my name, he will give it to you. Hitherto, you have not asked any thing in my name (Jn 16:23-24). With these few brief words opening…

Fourth Sunday after Easter  A few days ago, the Holy Father, in a discourse to the Diplomatic Corps, reminded us that “the Church can never be exempted from speaking the truth about humanity and the world, resorting whenever necessary to blunt language that may…

Third Sunday after Easter  In this time between Easter and Ascension, the Church reminds us of the words spoken by Our Lord at the Last Supper when He told the apostles of His impending death and resurrection. In just a little while, Our Lord…

Good Shepherd Sunday Today’s liturgy offers one of the best-known passages of the Gospel, the Good Shepherd, to our meditation. The image is a tender one, that of a man who looks after his sheep with great care and does not want any of…

1-3 May 2025  The month of May is the month of Mary. To her we now entrust two very important intentions: the repose of the soul of Pope Francis and the election of a truly Catholic Pope.  Regarding the first, we must not believe…