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…

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…