Today the Church celebrates its devotion to the Most Holy Trinity. Three divine persons share in one divine nature. God is both three and one. Our readings at Mass today will not mention the...
The apostles at Pentecost, by the power of the Holy Spirit were transformed into fearless proclaimers of the Gospel. Jesus in his farewell address to his disciples promised that the Holy Spirit would be...
In our first reading today Paul and Barnabas are continuing their missionary journey which has taken in Cyprus, Paphos and Perga. In Antioch they tell the Jews that they had the privilege of hearing...
This Sunday is known as Divine Mercy Sunday. During the 1930’s, Sr Maria Faustina Kowolska, a nun living in the Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy in Poland received a series of visions or...
For anyone who has been struggling through Lent to give something up, or to take up some new devotion of prayer or charitable work, it might appear that St Paul is calling those endeavours...
Last week we heard teaching from Jesus in Luke’s gospel which challenged the normal way of looking at things when he told his disciples that the poor, the hungry and those who wept were...
In our Gospel story today, Jesus has used Simon Peter’s boat to address the people gathered on the shore of lake Galilee, probably using one of the inlets of the lake as a natural...
” I, in my turn, after carefully going over the whole story from the beginning, have decided to write an ordered account for you.” (Luke 1:3) The opening chapter of Luke’s gospel is described...
The Feast of the Baptism of the Lord brings Christmas Time to a conclusion and we will begin Ordinary Time in the Church’s liturgical calendar – so called because we “order” our weeks as...