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…

Low Sunday The two essential points of meditation offered to us on this Octave of Easter are the importance of faith and mercy. In the epistle, St John insists that it is our faith that conquers the world, faith in the Son of God…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

3-5 April 2025 Passiontide is just around the corner, the suffering Christ beckons to us to lift up our eyes to Him and, as much as we can, share in His passion. Our monthly triduum is an excellent opportunity to get ourselves in gear…