Immaculate Conception By virtue of the Immaculate Conception, Our Blessed Mother is in her own category. She is not God, nor is she just one of us; she is not even just the best of us. She is apart. True, she was redeemed by…
Second Sunday of Advent During the penitential periods of the year, we sing every Saturday the second canticle of Moses, otherwise known as the Canticle of Deuteronomy (ch. 32). The canticle is a long meditation on the marvellous deeds of God towards His chosen…
December 2025 (4-6 December) With December we find ourselves again in Advent, the time of year of the great expectation for the coming of the Lord. Among the many figures we are called to consider during this time, one of them is a great…
First Sunday of Advent Show us, O Lord, Thy Mercy, and grant us Thy Salvation. The alleluia verse of today’s Mass, taken from Psalm 84, which is one of the great Psalms of Advent, has become part of the daily liturgy of the Mass….
Last Sunday after Pentecost On this last Sunday of the liturgical year, Holy Mother Church puts before our eyes the spectacle of the end of the world and the final judgment. The two major elements of this teaching are that the world as we…
23rd Sunday after Pentecost In today’s epistle, St Paul admonishes us to live as he lived, that is to say, as the apostles lived. How did the apostles live? They lived in this world, but they were not of this world. They knew they…
Homily for the Dedication of the Basilica of the Holy Saviour Today the Church commemorates the dedication of the Basilica of the Most Holy Saviour, otherwise known as the Basilica of St John Lateran, one of the four patriarchal basilicas in the Eternal City…
6-8 November 2025 This month’s triduum concludes on the feast of St Elizabeth of the Trinity, the wonderful Carmelite of Dijon who lived from 1880 to 1906. In a letter written 120 years ago this month to a lady by the name of Madame…
21st Sunday after Pentecost Today’s Mass presents us with a fascinating mosaic of texts which at first sight might seem somewhat disparate. We have a kind of chiasmus within the Introit Mardochai praying to the Lord with great assurance that all things are in…
