4th Sunday after Pentecost  In today’s Gospel, we contemplate Our Blessed Lord in Simon Peter’s boat, preaching to the people on the shore. At the end of His teaching, Jesus gives to Peter alone the command: launch out into the deep. Peter replies that…

3-5 July 2025  The Bible speaks with a certain frequency of blood. In the sacrifices prescribed by the Law of Moses the blood of animals was shed on the altar to mark a ritual atonement for sin. Since man could not pour out his…

Saints Peter and Paul  On this day, the blood of the two apostles of Rome, the pillars of the Church, Peter and Paul, was poured out in sacrifice. Like his Saviour, St Peter was crucified, but out of humility, asked to be crucified upside…

Corpus Christi  This feast, which we refer to as Corpus Christi, is known to the French as la Fête-Dieu, an expression that carries a double meaning. It is the Feast of God, for on it we honour God who is among us in the…

Trinity Sunday  From the dawn of history, ever since our first parents were expelled from the Garden of Eden, every civilisation has sought commerce with the divine, groping in the dark, desperate to know something, anything really, about the power that rules over the…

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 –…