Above all we know that we are called to perform good works because Jesus himself showed us that this was the way to put faith into practice. “Not everyone who says ‘Lord, Lord”, Jesus...
On 1st November 1950, Pope Pius XII proclaimed “for the joy and exultation of the entire Church;” that it was a divinely revealed truth that the ever Virgin Mary, having completed the course of...
Our second readings for the next few weeks are taken from St Paul’s letter to the Ephesians. We know from the Acts of the Apostles that Paul spent three years in Ephesus, preaching in...
This surely most famous of psalms is used at Mass today. In the lectionary it is numbered as Psalm 22, which is somewhat confusing as it has traditionally been known as the 23rd Psalm,...
This Sunday the church worldwide keeps its annual Day for Life. We give thanks for the gift of life and pray that the dignity of every human life be respected from conception to natural...
The Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi) is an important occasion in the Church’s year: indeed along with Holy Week, Easter, Christmas and Pentecost, Canon Law requires that a bishop...
At Pentecost, the seven weeks of Easter come to their fulfilment. Before he ascended into heaven Jesus told his apostles to stay in Jerusalem where after a few days they would be baptised with...
“And so the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven: there at the right hand of God he took his place.” (Mark 16:19) The Solemnity of the Ascension...
Last week’s in John’s Gospel we heard the risen Jesus invite Thomas to look at his hands, because Thomas had said that he would not believe that the Lord had risen from the dead...