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"LAETARE!" (REJOICE!)Today we rejoice! because Easter, the Feast of our Salvation, is drawing near. Jerusalem, of which the Introit or Entrance Antiphon speaks, is the symbol on earth of our Mother, the Church, which is "God's...Posted: Mar-07-2024 -
SPE SALVI—SAVED BY HOPE March 3, 2024Benedict XVI wrote an encyclical letter entitled “Saved by Hope”, in 2007. He reminded us that of the three great theological virtues, Faith, Hope and Charity, Hope is probably the least understood nowadays. Benedict saw the problem in...Posted: Feb-28-2024
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MY SON, THE CHOSEN ONE - LISTEN TO HIMChrist is the Lord of glory as we hear in today's Gospel of the Transfiguration. At first sight it seems strange to hear this account in Lent, the season of austerity. Yet we must understand that it is an...Posted: Feb-21-2024
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A SPIRITUAL BATTLE FOR JESUSOn the First Sunday of Lent, we hear each year one of the Gospel accounts of Our Lord’s temptations in the Wilderness. This year we hear that of St. Mark. St. Mark’s is the shortest Gospel...Posted: Feb-16-2024 -
A LIFE WORTH LIVINGLent is fast approaching: On Wednesday the holy season of Lent begins our long yearly journey towards Calvary and Easter. We call it a “journey” not only because it takes over seven weeks to complete, but because it...Posted: Feb-07-2024 -
HEALER AND SAVIOURIn today’s Gospel, St. Mark continues the account of our Lord’s healing work among the Galileans very early on in His public ministry. All that Jesus does: casting out the devil, making...Posted: Jan-31-2024 -
THE PRESENTATION IN THE TEMPLE: “CANDLEMAS”Friday is Candlemas Day, the final liturgical celebration of the Nativity cycle of feasts. St. Luke tells us how Our Lady and St. Joseph brought the forty-day old baby Jesus to the Temple in accordance with the requirements of...Posted: Jan-24-2024
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THE CONVERSION OF ST. PAULThursday is the feast of this great event, in which Saul the Pharisee and fanatical persecutor of the Church was struck from his horse outside the gates of Damascus and heard a voice addressing him: “Saul, Saul, why are...Posted: Jan-17-2024 -
THE LORD’S BAPTISM January 14, 2024This public ministry is prepared for by Our Lord submitting to the baptism offered by his cousin, St John the Baptist. We celebrated the feast of the Lord’s baptism just this past Monday. It...Posted: Jan-10-2024
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THE EPIPHANY January 7, 2024The great Solemnity of the Epiphany or “Manifestation” of our Lord, commemorates so much more than the coming of the Magi, for we celebrate no fewer than three “wonders” on this...Posted: Jan-03-2024 -
MARY, THE MOTHER OF GOD January 1, 2024Although we are used to thinking of Our Blessed Lady as the Mother of God, and honouring her as such, we must remember that there was a time in the history of the Church...Posted: Dec-26-2023 -
THE WORD BECAME FLESH - HOPE IS BORN December 25, 2023On Christmas Day we celebrate the appearance on earth of God in our human nature. This is the “miracle of the Incarnation”. For by becoming man, Jesus did not in any way cease to...Posted: Dec-22-2023
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REJOICE IN THE LORD!In the Gospel John the Baptist continues to give witness to Christ by telling those sent to him by the Chief Priests that though he is not himself the Messiah (the “Christ” or the “Anointed One&rdquo...Posted: Dec-12-2023 -
2ND SUNDAY OF ADVENTToday the Gospel introduces the figure of St. John the Baptist. The Baptist was not like the zealots. His preaching did not prepare anyone for war, except for the war against dehumanizing sin. He wanted only to prepare people...Posted: Dec-06-2023 -
Advent SundayAdvent is upon us once more. In the first instance, Advent is not about looking back to the first coming of the Saviour some two thousand years ago, which we will celebrate once more at Christmas. Advent opens a new...Posted: Nov-29-2023 -
OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, KING OF THE UNIVERSE!Today, the last Sunday of the liturgical year, we are celebrating the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe. We know from the Gospels that Jesus refused the title of king when it was meant...Posted: Nov-22-2023 -
WELL DONE, GOOD AND FAITHFUL SERVANT! November 19, 2023What is the best thing anyone has ever said to you? Maybe you have a particularly strong memory of some word of appreciation or praise from a person whom you really admired and loved, and whose good opinion you longed...Posted: Nov-15-2023 -
IT’S NOT ALL IN THE PAST, YOU KNOW!It is true that we owe a special debt to those who “for our tomorrow gave their today”. Yet we not only owe it to them to pray for the repose of their souls, but also to defend...Posted: Nov-08-2023 -
HOLY SOULS NOT YET IN HEAVENNovember is the month when we pray for the souls of those “who have gone before us marked with the sign of faith”. In other words, we pray for those who have died in a state of grace...Posted: Nov-01-2023 -
LOVE OF GOD AND LOVE OF NEIGHBOURAfter Our Lord had confounded the Pharisees as we heard last week, their great opponents the Sadducees decided that they also would like to try Our Lord’s intelligence themselves. So they asked Him: “what is the greatest...Posted: Oct-25-2023
