Holy Mother Church exhorts us to pray frequently for the souls of the faithful departed, but never so much as during the month of November, the Month of the Poor Souls. This month’s triduum is the perfect time to reflect upon Purgatory, our duties…

All Saints In his Rule for monks, St Benedict gives this admonition: Not to wish to be called holy before one is holy; but first to be holy, that one may more truly be called so (Rule, ch. 4). This advice, which is not…

Christ the King Today’s feast is one which most of our contemporaries, no doubt, have a hard time relating to. We give to Our Lord Jesus Christ the title of ‘King’. In truth, we are not the ones who give Him the title. He…

21st Sunday after Pentecost The great theme of this Sunday is that our life in this world is essentially a time of spiritual warfare, where the enemies are not our fellow humans, but the demons who are fighting against our souls, striving to take…

20th Sunday after Pentecost   Today’s Mass opens with a passage from the prayer pronounced by Azariah in the burning furnace. The episode is set during the Babylonian captivity, when the Chosen People had been exiled into a foreign land and deprived of the…

19th Sunday after Pentecost External Solemnity of the Holy Rosary With the month of October, we find ourselves once again in what is at once the month of the Holy Rosary and the month of the Holy Angels. This is certainly no coincidence. Our…

1-3 October 2026 October is the month of the Holy Angels, and it follows fast upon the feast of St Michael with whom the other archangels are associated in the liturgy. In the monastic breviary at Lauds on 29 September we sing a beautiful…

18th Sunday after Pentecost In today’s Gospel, we admire Our Blessed Lord healing a paralytic. It is one of the countless miracles He performs with a word. What is peculiar, however, to this healing is that He does not simply take the man by…

17th Sunday after Pentecost In today’s Gospel, we find Our Blessed Lord giving the Pharisees what we might call the first lesson in Christian apologetics, that is to say, the defence of the faith that St Peter already said all Christians must be able…