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…
All Saints The feast of All Saints allows us to honour those who have gone before us, having achieved the sanctity to which they were called. It gives us joy to contemplate their glory. It consoles…
Christ the King Even though the kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ is loudly proclaimed in the Holy Scriptures and has ever been at the heart of our faith, in modern times it has come to be strongly contested. It was before this spectacle…
19th Sunday after Pentecost At the heart of today’s Gospel, we find a royal wedding, thrown by the King for his Son. Who is this King, and who is this Son, and what is this wedding? The King is God the Father. The Son…
Solemnity of the Most Holy Rosary The month of October brings back before our minds – even though it is never far away – the wonderful prayer of the Holy Rosary. The feast of the Holy Rosary is on 7 October but is solemnised…
