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...
We can indeed rejoice that this Easter our churches are once again open for Mass and that we can gather together as a community around the altar of the Lord. Last year our churches...
During his life on earth, Christ offered up prayer and entreaty, aloud and in silent tears, to the one who had the power to save him out of death. (Hebrews 5:7) As Holy...
This week’s gospel records Jesus’ cleansing the Temple by fashioning a whip out of some cord and driving out cattle, sheep, pigeons and people. We imagine the chaos as he scatters coins all over...
Fr. John Writes: “The Spirit drove Jesus out into the wilderness, and he remained there for forty days.” (Mark 1) There are forty days between today, the first Sunday of Lent, and Good Friday....
Months of delusion I have assigned to me . . . restlessly I fret till twilight fails.” (Job 7) Our Old Testament reading this weekend sees the prophet Job struggling to understand why his...