Category: Fr Dominic Writes

The trouble is that we want the kingdom but not the reforming. Its like those who want the elected office, but not the campaign; who want the meal, but not […]

The vocation everyone sees is the obvious part of it. But hidden within it is a deeper purpose that is not always known to us. We cannot choose it. We […]

With this feast of the Baptism of the Lord, our Church season of Christmas comes to a close because the baby has become a man. Jesus’’ baptism occurred about a […]

Christmas is about gifts and presents. Around Christmas the shops are filled until late in the evening with shoppers who delayed buying their gifts. In the end hardly anyone can […]

A story is told about a School Christmas Pageant in which the boy playing Joseph became ill and was not able to perform. They did not replace him and nobody […]

This is really an astonishing question that John The Baptist gives to his followers to ask Jesus. He is now in prison because he challenged Herod on his marriage to […]

We have tended to romanticise much of the Bible or draw our mental images from Cecil B DeMille, the movies, or even from a children’s bible. But imagine going to […]

For how many people is the coming of Christmas a time of difficulty, acute awareness of bereavement, panic because of financial difficulties, or just despair? How many people dread the […]

We are becoming accustomed to hearing the word “King” a lot more after the passing of Queen Elizabeth, we hear it in other contexts too, “the King of the Jungle”, […]

Anxiety about the future is really a universal emotion. At some times in our lives everyone will wonder and worry about the future. Our lives are lived within three dimensions […]